2. Definition.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "advertisement" includes any form of advertising whether to the public generally or to any section of the public or, individually to selected persons;
(b) "Appropriate Authority" means the Appropriate 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 cardiopulmonary sense, at any time after 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 subsection (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 re- moved, cannot be replicated by the body;
(i) "near relative" means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister;
(j) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(k) "payment" means payment in money or money's worth but does not include any payment for defraying or reimbursing;
(i) the hcost of removing, transporting or preserving the human organ to be supplied; or
(ii) any expenses or loss of earnings incurred by a person so far as reasonably and directly attributable to his supplying any human organ from his body;
(l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules 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.
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