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Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993  094
V: Appeals
Appeal to High Court
59   Notice of appeal




   59. Notice of appeal---(1) Every appeal under section 58 of this Act
 shall be instituted by the appellant lodging a notice of appeal, within
 20 working days after the date of the determination, with---
   (a) The Registrar of the High Court at Wellington; and
   (b) The Secretary.

   (2) Subject to section 60 of this Act, either before or immediately
 after the lodging of the notice of appeal the appellant shall serve a
 copy of the notice of appeal, either personally or by post, on every
 other person who would have been entitled to appeal under section 58 of
 this Act against the determination in respect of which the appeal has
 been brought.

   (3) Service under subsection (2) of this section, if by post, shall be
 by registered letter and shall, for the purposes of this section, be
 deemed in the absence of evidence to the contrary to be effected at the
 time when the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.

   (4) Every notice of appeal shall specify---
   (a) The determination or the part of the determination appealed from;
         and
   (b) The error of law alleged by the appellant; and
   (c) The question of law to be resolved; and
   (d) The grounds of the appeal, which grounds shall be specified with
         such reasonable particularity as to give full advice to both the
         Court and the other parties of the issues involved.

   (5) The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after receiving a
 notice of appeal, send a copy of the whole of the determination appealed
 against to the Registrar of the High Court at Wellington.
     Cf. 1983, No. 130, s. 38; 1987, No. 85, s. 42; 1990, No. 58, s. 8
       (3)
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