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Home Dictionary Name: occupational therapyRecognised occupational therapy 'qualification' or recognised physiotherapy qualification
Recognised occupational therapy 'qualification' or recognised physiotherapy qualification, in occupation therapy or physiotherapy, as the case may be, obtained from recognised institution of occupational therapy or physiotherapy registered in Schedule I or Schedule II, respectively. [The Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2000, s. 2(n)]...
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy, means a branch health care system which involves application of purposeful goal-oriented activity through latest technology with computerized system and the like in the evaluation diagnosis or treatment of a persons whose function is impaired due to acute and chronic physical illness or injury, psychological dysfunction, congenital or developmental dis-ability or the ageing process in order to achieve optimum functioning to prevent disability and to maintain health; specific occupational therapy services which include education and training in activities of daily living (ADL); the design, fabrication and application of or those (splints); guidance in the selection and use of adaptive equipment, therapeutic activities to enhance functional performances; prevocational evaluation and training and consultation concerning the adaptation of physical environments which may be provided to individuals or groups and to both indoor and outdoor patients. [The Maharashtra Stat...
Occupational therapist
Occupational therapist, means a person who possesses occupational therapy qualification obtained from a recognised institution specified in Sch. I and whose name has been enrolled in the Register of Occupational Therapists. [The Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(f)]...
Profession
Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798.A profession ordinarily is an occupation requiring intellectual skill, often coupled with manual skill. Thus a teacher uses purely intellectual skill while a painter uses both. In any event, they are not engaged in an occupation in which employers and employees co-operates in the production or sale of commodities or arrangement for their production or sale or distribution and their services cannot be described as material services, Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, AIR 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735; see also Sodan Singh v. NDNC, (1989) 4 SCC 155.Calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, physic, and law are called the learned professions.Includes business, Pioneer Motors v. Municipal Council Ngarcoil, AIR 1967 SC 684: 1961 (3) SCR 609.Profession,...
Physiotherapist
Physiotherapist, means a person who possesses physiotherapy qualification obtained from a recognised institution specified in Sch. II and whose name has been enrolled in the Register of Physiotherapists. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(h)]Means a branch of modern medical science which includes examination, assessment, interpretation, physical diagnosis planning and execution or treatment and advice to any person for the purpose of preventing, correcting, alleviating and limiting dysfunction, acute and chronic bodily malfunction including life saving measures via chest physio-therapy in the intensive care units, curing physical disorders or disability promoting physical fitness, facilitating healing and pain relief and treatment of physical and psychosomatic disorders through modulaing psysiological and physical response using physical agents, activities and devices including exercises, mobilization, manipulations, therapeutic ultras...
Recognised institution
Recognised institution, means an institution for research in agriculture or extension education, other than an affiliated college. [Gujarat Agricultural University Act, 2004, s. 2(13)]Means an institution of higher learning recognised by the University within the State of Mizoram. [Mizoram University Act, 2000 (8 of 2000), s. 2(o); (58 of 1994), s. 2(o)]Means an institution specified in Schedule I with grants qualifications in occupational therapy or, as the case may be, an institution specified in Schedule II which grants qualification in physiotherapy. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(m)]...
Schedule
Schedule, a small scroll; a writing additional or appendant, as a list of fixtures in a lease or details of any matter contained in the body of a deed, document., or of enactments repealed and other supplementary matter in an Act of Parliament, e.g., the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which has twenty-two schedules; an inventory.--shall mean a schedule to the Act or Regulation in which the word occurs. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(52)]Schedule, in the House of Commons, when a Bill is under consideration, the Schedule is taken up after all the clauses and new clauses have been considered; this order may be changed by moving a motion to that effect and the Schedule may be considered after the clause to which it is related. A Schedule can be amended like any clause, new Schedule can also be moved and considered, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 2001, p. 494.Schedule, is a list, catalogue, or inventory of details, often as an explanatory supplement to a Will, ...
State
State, Board of control for cricket India is not financially, functionally or administratively dominated by government nor it is under control of government. Government only exercises limited contract which is purely regulatory and not pervasive. Board is therefore not state, Zee Telefilms Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 2005 SC 2677.In Article 3 of Constitution of India as amended by the fifth Amendment Act 1955. It obviously refers to the States in the First Schedule and the 'Legislature of the State' refers to the Legislature which each State has under the Constitution, Babulal Parate v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3)The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority are exercised over such a body of people, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1415.The expression 'the State' has the same meaning in Part IV of the Constitution under Article 36. No reason was s...
Member
Member, is defined as 'member' in relation to an occupational pension scheme, means any active, deferred or pensioner member, Bus Employees Pension Trustees Ltd. v. Harrod, (1999) 3 WLR 1244.Member, means a member of the Authority. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(l)]Member, means a member of the Commission and includes the Chairperson. [The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(e)]Member, means a member of the council. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(e)]Member, means a person elected at an election to fill seats in a Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti, Zilla Parishad or Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad. [West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, 2003, s. 2(12)]Member, means a person joining in the application for the registration of a multi-State Co-operative society and includes a person admitted to membership after such registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the rules a...
Registered practitioner
Registered practitioner, means an occupational therapist or physiotherapist, as the case may be, whose name is entered and continues to remain on the register of the Council. [The Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(p)]...
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