The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001

Appeals

38.—(1) An appeal from—

(a) any order or decision of the Health Committee or the Conduct and Competence Committee other than an interim order made under article 31, shall lie to the appropriate court; and

(b) any decision of the Council under article 37 or of the Investigating Committee under article 26(7) or (12) shall lie to a county court or, in Scotland, to a sheriff.

(2) In any appeal under this article the Council shall be the respondent.

(3) The Court or sheriff may—

(a) dismiss the appeal;

(b) allow the appeal and quash the decision appealed against;

(c) substitute for the decision appealed against any other decision the Practice Committee concerned or the Council, as the case may be, could have made; or

(d) remit the case to the Practice Committee concerned or Council, as the case may be, to be disposed of in accordance with the directions of the court or sheriff,

and may make such order as to costs (or, in Scotland, expenses) as it, or he, as the case may be, thinks fit.

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

(a) in the case of a person whose registered address is (or, if he were registered, would be) in Scotland, the Court of Session;

(b) in the case of a person whose registered address is (or, if he were registered, would be) in Northern Ireland, the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland; and

(c) in the case of a visiting EEA nurse or midwife or in any other case, the High Court of Justice in England and Wales.