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2.In this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires-
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'advertisement' includes any form of advertising whether to the public generally or to any section
of the public or individually to
selected persons;
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"Appropriate Authority” means the Appropriate Authority
appointed under section 13;
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"Authorisation Committee" means the committee constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) of
sub-section (4) of
section 9;
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“brain-stem death” means the stage at which all functions
of the brain stem have permanently and irreversibly ceased and is so
certified under sub-section (6) of section 3;
- "deceased person" means a person in whom
permanent disappearance of all evidence of life occurs, by
reason of brain stem death or in a cardio pulmonary sense at any time
after live birth has taken place;
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“donor" means any person, not less than eighteen years
of age, who voluntarily authorises the
removal of any of his human organs for therapeutic purposes
under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 3;
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"hospital” includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and
other like institution;
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"human organ” means any part of a human body consisting
of a structural arrangement or tissues which, if wholly removed,
cannot be replicated by the body;
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"near relative" means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister;
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"notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette.
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"payment" means payment in money or money's worth but
does not include any payment for defraying or reimbursing -
(i) the cost of removing transporting or preserving the human
organ
to be supplied; or
(ii)any expenses or loss of earnings incurred by a person so far as
reasonably and directly attributable to his supplying any human organ
from his body;
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"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act
"recipient" means a person into whom any human organ
is, or is proposed to be, transplanted.
"registered medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognised medical
qualification as
defined in clause (h) of section 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act,
1956, and who is
enrolled on a State Medical Register as defined in clause(k) of that section.
“therapeutic purposes” means systematic treatment of any
disease or the measures to improve health according to any particular
method or modality; and
"transplantation" means the grafting of
any human organs from any living person or deceased person to
some other living person for therapeutic purposes.
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