Dentists Act, 1928

Appeals to the High Court.

33.—(1) Whenever the Board refuses to register in the register a person who has applied for such registration or erases the name of any person from the register the Board shall forth with send by post to such person notice in writing of such refusal or erasure and of the reason therefor

(2) Whenever the Board refuses or fails to register in the register a person who has applied for such registration or erases the name of any person from the register such person may within three months after receiving from the Board notice under this section of such refusal or erasure or, in the case of a failure to register, within six months after his application for such registration appeal to the High Court in accordance with rules of court against such refusal, failure, or erasure, and on the hearing of any such appeal the High Court may give such directions as it thinks proper including a direction that the name of the appellant be registered in or restored to the register as on and from the date of the order of the Court or any earlier date and directions as to how the costs of the appeal are to be borne.

(3) On the hearing of an appeal under this section from an erasure on account of the appellant having been found guilty of infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect, the High Court may, if it thinks proper so to do, admit and have regard to evidence of persons of standing in the medical profession or the dental profession as to what is infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect.

(4) Whenever the High Court on an appeal under this section directs the name of a person to be registered in or restored to the register, the Board shall register or restore (as the case may be) the name of such person in or to the register in accordance in all respects with such direction.

(5) The decision of the High Court on an appeal under this section shall be final and shall not be subject to appeal to any other court