(1) Before making an order refusing an application for registration and license in respect of a nursing home or a clinical establishment or an order canceling any registration and license in respect thereof, the supervising authority shall give to the applicant or to the person registered and licensed not less than one calendar month's notice of its intention to make such an order, and every such notice shall state the grounds on which the supervising authority intends to make the order and shall contain in intimation to the effect that if within a calendar month of the receipt of the notice the applicant or the person registered informs the authority in writing that he desires so to do, the supervising authority shall, before making the order, give him an opportunity of showing cause (in person or by representative) why the order should not be made.
(2) If the supervising authority after giving the applicant or the person registered an opportunity of showing cause as aforesaid, decides to refuse the application for registration and license or to cancel the registration and the license, as the case may be, it shall make an order to that effect and shall send a copy of the order by registered post to the applicant or the person registered.
(3) Any person aggrieved by an order refusing an application for registration and license, or canceling any registration and license may, within a period of a calendar month after the date on which the copy of the order was received by him, appeal to the 1appellate authority, against such order.
1 In subsection (3), of section 6 of principal Act, for the words "State Government", the words "appellate authority" has been substituted vide amendment dated 06.08.2008, published in the MP Gazette (Extraordinery) no. 473 dated 6th August 2008.
Notice of refusal or of cancellation of registration 11 1 (4) Deleted.
(5) An appeal shall not operate as a stay of the order appealed against except so far as the 2appellate authority, may order.
(6) 3 The appellate authority may, for sufficient cause order the stay of the order appealed against until further orders or until the disposal of the appeal whichever is earlier.
(7) Where an application is made for stay of the order appealed against before the expiration of the time prescribed for appealing there from the supervising authority, which made the order may, on sufficient cause being shown, order the stay .