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Transplantation

Transplantation, means the grafting of any human organ from any living person or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic purposes. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2(p)]...


Payment

Payment, is the act of paying, K.S. Bawa v. Director of Enforcement, (1990) Cr LJ 1068.The payment of money before the day appointed is in law payment at the day; for it cannot, in presumption of law, be any prejudice to him to whom the payment is made to have his money before the time; and it appears by the party's receipt of it, that it is for his own advantage to receive it then, otherwise he would not do it, 5 Rep. 117. See the notes to Cumber v. Wane, (1719) in 1 Smith's L.C.Payment is a recompense for service rendered, Bala Subrahmanya Rajaram v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1958 SC 518 (519): (1958) SCR 1504.(ii) 'Payment' implies gift of money by someone to another. A partition in a H.U.F. can be considered either as 'disposition' or 'conveyance' or 'assign-ment' or 'settlement' or 'delivery' or 'payment' or 'alienation' within the meaning of those words in s. 2 (xxiv) of Gift Tax Act, 1958; Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty Chettiar, AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1972) 1 SCR 736: (1971) 2 SCC 74...


Hospital

Hospital, includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and other like institution. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (g)]Means any institution which provides medical or surgical treatment for in-patients, other than: (1) a health service hospital within the meaning of the National Health Service Act, 1977 [See (English) National Health Service Act, 1977); (2) one which is military hospital; or (3) any institution carried on for profit [See (English) Road Traffic Act, 1988, s. 161(1) definition substituted by the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act, 1999, s. 18(3)]....


Therapeutic purposes

Therapeutic purposes, means systematic treatment of any disease or the measures to improve the health according to any particular method or modality, Panne Singh v. State of Rajasthan, 1996 Cr LR Raj 171. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2(o)]...


Registered 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 ...


Recipient

Recipient, means a person into whom any human organ is, or is proposed to be, transplanted. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2(m)]...


Near relative

Near relative, means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (i)]...


Human organ

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. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (45 of 1994), s. 2 (h)]...


Donor

Donor, a giver, a bestower, one who gives land to another in tail, etc.It 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-s. (1) or sub-s. (2) of s. 3. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (f)]Referred in Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (4 of 1882, s. 122]...


Deceased person

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 anytime after live birth has taken place. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (e)]Means a person who is no more, who is dead and gone [Estate Duty Act, 1953, s. 2(6)]...


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