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Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 Complete Act

Title: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969

State: Central

Year: 1969

.....send periodical returns to the Chief Registrar for compilation Chapter V Section20 - Special provision as to registration of births and deaths of citizens outside India Section21 - Power of Registrar to obtain information regarding birth or death Section22 - Power to give directions Section23 - Penalties Section24 - Power to compound offences Section25 - Sanction for prosecution Section26 - Registrars and Sub-Registrars to be deemed public servants Section27 - Delegation of powers Section28 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section29 - Act not to be in derogation of Act 6 of 1886 Section30 - Power to make rules Section31 - Repeal and saving Section32 - Power to remove difficulty

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Complete Act

Title: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....deaths Section27 - Penalty for wilfully giving false information Section28 - Correction of entry in register of births or deaths Chapter IV Section29 - Repealed Section30 - Repealed Section31 - Repealed Chapter V Section32 - Permission to persons having custody of certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General Section33 - Appointment of Commissioners to examine registers Section34 - Duties of Commissioners Section35 - Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of certified copies of entries Section35A - Constitution of additional Commissions for purposes of this Chapter Chapter VI Section36 - Rules Section37 - Procedure for making and publication of rules

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Medical Council Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....ACT, 1956 MEDICAL COUNCIL ACT, 1956 102 of 1956 30th December, 1956 "The objects of this Bill are to amend the Indian Medical Council Act, 1933 (Act 27 of 1933)- (a) to give representation to licentiate members of the medical profession, a large number of whom are still practising in the country, (b) to provide for the registration of the names of citizens of India who have obtained foreign medical qualifications which are not at present recognised .under the existing Act; (e) to provide for the temporary' recognition of medical qualifications granted by medical institutions in countries outside India with which no scheme of reciprocity exists in cases where the medical practitioners concerned are attached for the time being to any medical institution in India for the purpose of teaching or research or for any charitable object; (d) to provide for the formation of a Committee of Post-graduate Medical Education for the purpose of assisting the Medical Council of India to prescribe standards of post-graduate medical education for the guidance of Universities and to advise Universities in the matter of securing uniform standards for post-graduate medical education.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....made under this Act: (m) "recipient" means a person into whom any human organ is, or is proposed to be, transplanted; (n) "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 (102 of 1956), and who is enrolled on a State Medical Register as defined in clause (k) of that section; (o) "therapeutic purposes" means systematic treatment of any disease or the measures to improve health according to any particular method or modality; and (p) "transplantation" means the grafting of any human organ from any living person or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic purposes. CHAPTER 02: AUTHORITY FOR THE REMOVAL OF HUMAN ORGANS SECTION 03: AUTHORITY FOR REMOVAL OF HUMAN ORGANS (1) Any donor may, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, authorise the removal, before his death, of any human organ of his body for therapeutic purposes. (2) If any donor had, in writing and in the presence of two or more witnesses (at least one of whom is a near relative of such person), unequivocally authorised at any time.....

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Eyes (Authority for Use for Therapeutic Purposes) Act, 1982 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

State: Central

Year: 1982

.....made under this Act; (m) "recipient" means a person into whom any human organ is, or is proposed to be, transplanted; (n) "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; (o) "therapeutic purposes" means systematic treatment of any disease or the measures to improve health according to any particular method or modality; and (p) "transplantation" means the grafting of any human organ from any living person or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic purposes. 3. Authority for removal of human organs (1) Any donor may, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, authorise the removal, before his death, of any human organ of his body for therapeutic purposes. (2) If any donor had, in writing and in the presence of two or more witnesses (at least one of whom is a near relative of such person), unequivocally authorised at any time before his death, the removal of any human organ of his body, after.....

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Ear Drums and Ear Bones (Authority for Use for Therapeutic Purposes) Act, 1982 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

State: Central

Year: 1982

.....made under this Act; (m) "recipient" means a person into whom any human organ is, or is proposed to be, transplanted; (n) "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; (o) "therapeutic purposes" means systematic treatment of any disease or the measures to improve health according to any particular method or modality; and (p) "transplantation" means the grafting of any human organ from any living person or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic purposes. 3. Authority for removal of human organs (1) Any donor may, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, authorise the removal, before his death, of any human organ of his body for therapeutic purposes. (2) If any donor had, in writing and in the presence of two or more witnesses (at least one of whom is a near relative of such person), unequivocally authorised at any time before his death, the removal of any human organ of his body, after.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Chapter II

Title: Authority for the Removal of Human Organs

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely :-- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred; (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Section 3

Title: Authority for Removal of Human Organs

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely :-- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred; (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....Authority appointed under section 13; (c) " Authorisation Committee" means the committee constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (4) of section 9; (d) "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; (e) "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 of live birth has taken place; (f) "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; (g) "hospital" includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and other like institution; (h) "human organ" means any part of a human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues which if wholly removed, cannot be replicated by the body; (i) "near relative" means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister; (j) "notification".....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....Authority appointed under section 13; (c) " Authorisation Committee" means the committee constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (4) of section 9; (d) "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; (e) "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 of live birth has taken place; (f) "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; (g) "hospital" includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and other like institution; (h) "human organ" means any part of a human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues which if wholly removed, cannot be replicated by the body; (i) "near relative" means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister; (j) "notification".....

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