A GP who allegedly amputated a newborn’s penis during a ritual circumcision remains banned from performing the procedure after a tribunal refused to stay conditions on his registration.

Two months ago, the Medical Board of Australia used its emergency powers to ban Dr Hershel Goldman from carrying out further circumcisions after receiving complaints that two infants had experienced serious complications.

Dr Goldman appealed to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to stay the ban on the condition he only perform circumcisions in a clinical setting and pending a formal review of the board’s decision.

At a hearing last month, the medical board alleged the Melbourne GP amputated — or partly amputated — a seven-day-old infant’s penis during a Bris (ritual circumcision) in a family home.