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Home Dictionary Name: medical practitionerRegistered medical practitioner
Registered medical practitioner, means a medical practitioner who possesses any medical qualifica-tion as defined in clause (h) of section 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) and whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 53 Expln. (b), see also Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2005 (25 of 2005), s. 8]Means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognised medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of s. 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register and who has such experience or training in gynaecology and obstetrics as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act. [Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971), s. 2(d)]Means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognised medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of s. 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and who is enrolled on a State Medical Register as ...
Qualified medical practitioner
Qualified medical practitioner, means a person having a certificate granted by an authority specified in the Schedule to the Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916, or notified under s. 3 of that Act or specified in the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and includes any person having a certificate granted under any Provincial or State Medical Council Act. [Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2 (j); See also Mines Act, 1952, s. 2(1)(n)]Means any person registered under any Central Act Provincial Act, or an Act to the Legislature of a State providing for the maintenance of a register of medical practitioners, or, in any area where no such last-mentioned Act is in force, any person declared by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a qualified medical practitioner for the purposes of this Act. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, s. 2 (1) (i)]...
Medical practitioners
Medical practitioners. The term is applied to physicians and surgeons. By s. 32 of the (English) Medical Act, 1858, only a registered medical practitioner can sue for his charges, and by s. 6 of the (English) Medical Act, 1886, a fellow of a College of Physicians may be prohibited by bye-law of the College from suing; and such bye-law has been passed. It is an offence for any person falsely to pretend that he holds a medical or surgical qualification (s. 40, Act of 1858), but it is not an offence merely to practise surgery or medicine, see Whitwell v. Shakerly, (1932) 147 LT 157 (bone-setter, osteopathic physician and surgeon). The registration of medical men in controlled by the Medical Council. See GENERAL COUNCIL, and Medical Acts of 1858, 1859, 1860, 1876, 1886 and 1905. The College of Physicians, with other bodies, was empowered to grant qualifications of registration to women by the Medical Act, 1876 ('Russell Gurney's Act'). See also APOTHECARIES....
Medical practitioner
Medical practitioner, means a person who possesses a recognised medical qualification as defined--(i) in clause (h) of s. 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register, as defined in clause (k) of that section.(ii) in clause (h) of sub-s. (1) of s. 2 of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970, and whose name has been entered in a State Register of Indian Medicine, as defined in clause (j) of sub-s. (1) of that section.(iii) in clause (g) of sub-s. (1) of s. 2 of the Homeopathy Central Council act, 1973, and whose name has been entered in a State Register of Homeopathy, as defined in clause (i) of sub-s. (1) of that section. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (k)]...
Registered homeopathic medical practitioner
Registered homeopathic medical practitioner, means a person who is registered in the Central Register or a State Register of Homeopathy. [Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, R. 2 (ea)]...
General Council
General Council (of the Bar), the full title of the Bar Council. See BAR COUNCIL.General Council (of the Catholic Church), a council consisting of members of the Church from most parts of the world, but not from every part, as an --cumenical Council.'The General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom' (Medical Act, 1858). The Medical Council, as it is commonly called, has power to settle the qualifications of medical practitioners and to strike off the register any of them convicted of felony or misdemeanour or judged guilty by the Council of 'infamous conduct in any professional respect' (s. 29), see R. v. General Medical Council, Ex parte Kynaston, (1930) 1 KB 562. The High Court has no jurisdiction to interfere with the Council's bona fide decision, Allbutt v. Medical Council, (1889) 23 QBD 400. The Council consists of five Crown nominees, twenty-two persons chosen by the same number of universities and colleges, and five persons elected by the registere...
Patent medicine
Patent medicine, A patent medicine means medicine in respect of which a patent is in force, Aphali Pharmaceuticals v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 2227.Patent or proprietary medicines are--(1) those enumerated in the schedule to the (English) Medicine Stamp Act, 1812; (2) all other medicines intended for human use and claimed to be made by a secret process or protected by letters-patent, or which have been advertised as beneficial to the prevention, cure, or relief of any ailment or disorder affecting the human body. Under the (English) Medicine Stamp Acts, 1802 and 1804, duties were imposed on each bottle or package according to the price. These duties are payable by the manufacturers and collected by means of labels of appropriate amounts, so affixed to the packages as to be destroyed when they are opened. The duties were doubled by the Finance Act, 1915: this increased rate has been continued from year to year. The schedule to the Act of 1812 exempts f...
Apothecaries
Apothecaries [fr. apothicaire, Fr., fr. apoqnkn, Gk.], persons who combine the giving of medical advice with the supply of medicines prepared by themselves. Their practice in England and Wales is mainly regulated by the (English) Apothecaries Act, 1815 (55 Geo. 3, c. 194) (which recites and partly repeals but otherwise confirms the charter of James the First to the Apothecaries Company), and the (English) Apothecaries Amendment Act, 1874, (37 & 38 Vict. c. 34). To 'act or practise as an apothecary' without a certificate which under the earlier Act is an offence ,indicates an habitual or continuous course of conduct, and consequently an offender is only liable to one penalty though several persons may have been attended to, Apothecaries Co. v. Jones, (1893) 1 QB 89. An apothecary, as such, may sell drugs prescribed by another as well as drugs prescribed by himself; a chemist may not prescribe but only sell drugs: a medical practitioner, as such, may only sell drugs prescribed by himself...
Panel
Panel [fr. panellum, Lat.; panneau, Fr., a square or panel]. 1. A little part, or rather a schedule or page, containing the names of such jurors as the sheriff returns to pass upon a trial; and empannelling a jury is nothing but the entering them into the sheriff's roll or book, Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 158 b.2. In Scots law, the accused person in a criminal trial after appearance in court.3. Panel of Arbitrators, the name given to the permanent Court or Tribunal established under the Hague Arbitration Convention.The term is often applied to the list of such medical practitioners as have agreed to administer the Medical Benefit under the National Health Insur-ance Acts. Those entitled to be treated by such a medical practitioner are popularly called 'panel-patients,' and the word is used to denote a list of any authoritative persons or consultants where determination or advise is required by statute, e.g., arbitrators under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation...
Physician
Physician, one who professes the art of healing.The necessity of placing under supervision the practitioners of physic and surgery appears early in the statute-book; for by the still unrepealed 3 Hen. 8, c. 11, it is enacted, that no person within London or seven miles thereof, shall practise as a physician or surgeon without examination and licence of the Bishop of London or Dean of St. Paul's (duly assisted by the faculty); or beyond these limits without licence from the bishop of his diocese or his vicar-general similarly assisted, sav-ing the privileges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The superintendence of the bishops was taken away by a royal charter dated 23rd September, 1858 (10 Hen. 8), which incorporated the physicians. By 14 & 15 Hen. 8, c. 5, this charter was confirmed, and a perpetual college of physicians established with a constitution of eight elects, etc. The subsequent history of the college is sufficiently traced in 23 & 24 Vict. c. 66, which provides fo...
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