Substitution of section 10

For section 10 of the Principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely :—

10.

1. (1) The State Government shall appoint for not more than three years at a time, an appellate authority, consisting of a person, who has been a judge of the High Court, or a person who has held office not below the rank of the Chief Secretary of a State, before which a person or a professional institution aggrieved by an order of the Committee may file an appeal, within a period of 30 days of passing of such an order.
2. (2) While hearing an appeal the Appellate Authority after calling for the records from the Committee and after giving an opportunity of hearing to both the appellant and the Committee shall decide the appeal and the decision made in the appeal shall be final.