You can appeal if you are unhappy with a decision made by the Director-General under section 30 or section 38. You can also appeal if you are unhappy with a decision made by the licensing authority under section 51. You appeal to the Medicines Review Committee. You must start your appeal within 28 days of being told about the decision. The Medicines Review Committee can give you more time if they want to. They can look at your appeal and decide what to do. The Medicines Review Committee can agree with the original decision, cancel it, or change it as they see fit.

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"Appealing to the High Court if you disagree with a medicines decision"

Part 6Appeals

88Refusal of licensing authority to grant licence

Any person who is aggrieved by a decision—
of the Director-General made under section 30 or section 38; or
of the licensing authority made under section 51—

Every appeal under subsection (1) shall be commenced within 28 days after the date on which the decision that is the subject of the appeal has been given to the person seeking to bring the appeal, or within such extended time as the Medicines Review Committee may allow.
On any such appeal, the Medicines Review Committee may confirm or reverse or modify the decision that is the subject of the appeal, as it thinks fit.