New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 49.8

49.8 Institution of appeal

(cf SCR Part 60, rule 11)

(1) An appeal from a decision of an associate Judge of the Supreme Court under rule 49.4 is to be instituted by filing a notice of motion.

(2) The appeal must be instituted within 28 days after the material date.

(3) The associate Judge may extend the time allowed under subrule (2) within 28 days after the material date, or on a notice of motion filed within 28 days after the material date, and not otherwise.

(4) The Supreme Court may extend the time allowed under subrule (2) at any time.

(5) For the purposes of this rule, the
"material date" is--

(a) in the case of an appeal from a judgment, the date on which the judgment was given, or

(b) in the case of an appeal from an order, the date of the order, or

(c) in any other case, the date of the decision under appeal.