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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pharmacists-and-pharmacy-technicians-order-2007/article-56",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/0110754611",
  "legislation_title": "The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pharmacists-and-pharmacy-technicians-order-2007",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Appeals against appealable fitness to practise decisions",
  "text": "(1) The following decisions are appealable fitness to practise decisions for the purposes of this Part—\n(a) a decision of the Registrar under article 41 to refuse an application for restoration to one of the Society’s registers for a reason that relates to the applicant’s fitness to practise;\n(b) a decision of the Health Committee under article 51 to give a direction for suspension or for conditional registration or varying the conditions imposed by a direction for conditional registration (including a decision to give such a direction that extends an earlier direction);\n(c) a decision of the Disciplinary Committee under article 52 to give a direction—\n(i) to remove a person from a register, or\n(ii) for suspension or conditional registration or for varying the conditions imposed by a direction for conditional registration (including a decision to give such a direction that extends an earlier direction);\n(d) a decision of the Disciplinary Committee under article 55(6) to give a direction for conditional registration; and\n(e) a decision of the Disciplinary Committee to give a direction under article 55(9) that a person may make no further applications under that article in respect of a particular register (or both registers).\n(2) A person in respect of whom an appealable fitness to practise decision has been made may appeal against that decision to the relevant court, provided that he does so (subject to any rules of the relevant court in respect of the admissibility of applications to it) within 28 days beginning with the date on which the written notice of the reasons for the decision was sent to him.\n(3) In this article and article 57, “the relevant court” means—\n(a) the High Court; or\n(b) as regards an application relating to registration in the Register of Pharmacists, if the person making the appeal is domiciled in Scotland, the Court of Session.\n(4) Having considered the appeal, the relevant court may—\n(a) dismiss the appeal;\n(b) allow the appeal, and—\n(i) quash the decision appealed against, or\n(ii) in the case of an appeal in respect of a direction, quash the direction in respect of which the appeal is made;\n(c) in the case of an appeal in respect of a direction, substitute for the direction any other direction that the committee or person giving the direction could have given; or\n(d) remit or refer the case to the Registrar, the Health Committee or the Disciplinary Committee for him or it to dispose of the matter in accordance with directions from the relevant court,\nand may make such order as to costs or, in Scotland, expenses as the relevant court thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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