Former rugby league star Jarryd Hayne has been committed to stand trial over aggravated sexual assault charges.

Before the committal at Newcastle local court on Wednesday, Magistrate Robert Stone granted Mr Hayne permission to leave NSW to train with an evangelical Christian ministry organisation in Perth.

Mr Hayne will stand trial in the district court over two charges of aggravated sexual assault inflicting actual bodily harm in relation to the alleged rape of a woman in the Hunter Region last September.

Police allege Mr Hayne had sex with a 26-year-old woman without her consent, knowing that she wasn't consenting, on NRL Grand Final night last year.