High Court of Australia
454 HIGH COURT (1956-1957.
[HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.]
REYNOLDS 5 i b s é 5 . APPELLANT ; APPLICANT, AND STACY AND OTHERS . : p ¥ . RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
Medical Practitioners—Drugs—Failure to keep register—Misdemeanour—Dis- ciplinary tribunal—Inquiry—Jurisdiction—Medical Practitioners Act 1938- 1955 (W.S.W.), 8. 27 (1) (a)-
Section 27 of the Medical Practitioners Act 1938-1955 (N.S.W.) provides :— " (1) A complaint or charge that any registered person—(a) has been convicted in New South Wales of a felony or misdemeanour, or elsewhere of an offence which, if committed in New South Wales would have been a felony or mis-
Merpournr, demeanour; .. . may be preferred to the Board of Health, which shall Feb. 18. cause the same to be investigated." Dixon C.J. Held, that by the word " misdemeanour" the sub-section refers only to Meiernan,
a indictable offences and does not include summary offenc
itto and Taylor Jd Pickup v. Dental Board of the United Kingdom (1928) 2 K.B. 459, discussed.
Decision of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Full Court): Bx parte Reynolds ; Re Stacy (1956) S.R. (N.S.W.) 372; 73 W.N. 445, reversed.
Apprat from the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Farrell John Reynolds a legally qualified medical practitioner registered under the Medical Practitioners Act 1938-1955 was on 25th June 1955 convicted at the Court of Petty Sessions, Kogarah of an offence under Pt. VI of the Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1908 for that on 14th March 1955 he did not keep or cause to be kept a register of drugs as required by the regulations made pursuant
to such Act. On h January 1956 one Walter James Madgwick, the chief
food inspector of the Board of Health, preferred a complaint to the
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Secretary of the Board of Health that by reason of the conviction H.C. or A.
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