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Appeals from the Board or the Committee.
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49.—(1) Where, under this Act, the name of a person has been removed from the register of nurses or where the Committee has refused to recommend the restoration of the name of a person to the midwives division or the Board has refused to register the name of a person in the register of nurses or refused to restore the name of a person to the register of nurses, the person may appeal from the decision of the Board or the Committee as the case may be either to the High Court or the Minister (but not to both) within three months after the notification to the person of such removal or such refusal as the case may be.
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(2) The decision of the High Court or the Minister (as the case may be) on an appeal under this section shall be final.
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(3) Where an appeal under this section is successful—
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(a) in the case of an appeal to the High Court, the court may award costs against the Board,
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(b) the Board shall (where the appeal was to the High Court) give notice of the result of the appeal to the Minister, and where the appellant was a midwife, shall give notice of the result of the appeal to every local supervising authority concerned,
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(c) the Board shall, as the case may require, restore the name of the appellant to the register of nurses or register the name of the appellant in the register of nurses, and
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(d) the Board may, if they so think fit, pay to the appellant such sum as they consider reasonable compensation for any loss of practice sustained by the appellant between the decision of the Board and the determination of the appeal.
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