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Home Dictionary Name: 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)]...
Common law practitioner
Common law practitioner, practitioners in other common law jurisdictions who have for a period of not less than three years regularly exercised rights of audience in superior courts which administer law which is substantially equivalent to the common law of England and Wales, Consolidated Regulations of the Four Inns of Court (1988) reg. 34 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 380, p. 296....
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....
Legal practitioner
Legal practitioner, means an advocate [or vakil] or any High Court, a pleader, mukhtar or revenue agent. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), s. 2 (i)]It means an advocate entered in any roll under the provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961. [Notaries Act, 1952 (53 of 1952), s. 2 (c)]It shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Advocates Act, 1961. [Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), s. 2 (r)]...
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)]...
Office practitioner
Office practitioner, means a lawyer who does not litigate; an attorney whose work is accomplished primarily in the office, without court appearances. Also termed office lawyer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1113...
Practitioner
Practitioner, one who is engaged in the exercise or employment of any art or profession....
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)]...
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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