The Pharmacy Order 2010

Appeals against appealable fitness to practise decisions

58.—(1) The following decisions are appealable fitness to practise decisions for the purposes of this Part—

(a) a decision of the Fitness to Practise Committee under article 54 to give a direction to remove the entry of a person from one or more parts of the Register;

(b) a decision of the Fitness to Practise Committee under article 54 to give a direction for suspension or for conditional entry (including a direction extending a period of earlier suspension or of conditional entry or making a period of suspension indefinite);

(c) a decision of the Fitness to Practise Committee under article 54 to give a direction to vary the conditions imposed by a direction for conditional entry; and

(d) a decision of the Fitness to Practise Committee to give a direction under article 57(9) that a person may make no further applications under that article in respect of one or more parts of the Register.

(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.

(3) Notice of any appeal under this article must be filed at, or in Scotland lodged in, the relevant court and served on the Council, in accordance with rules of court, within 28 days beginning with the date on which the written notice of the reasons for the decision was sent, or within such longer period as the relevant court may, in accordance with rules of court, allow.

(4) In this article, “the relevant court” means—

(a) in a case where the person making the appeal is domiciled in Scotland, the Court of Session; and

(b) in any other case, the High Court.

(5) Having considered the appeal, the relevant court may—

(a) dismiss the appeal;

(b) allow the appeal and quash the direction in respect of which the appeal is made;

(c) substitute for the direction in respect of which the appeal is made any other direction that the Fitness to Practise Committee could have given; or

(d) remit or refer the case to the Registrar or the Fitness to Practise Committee for disposal of the matter in accordance with the relevant court’s directions,

and may make such order as to costs or, in Scotland, expenses as the relevant court thinks fit.