State Act

THE ASSAM MEDICAL COUNCIL ACT, 1999

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Council" means the Assam Medical Council constituted under section 3 ; (b) "medicine" means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not includes veterinary medicine and surgery or the Homeopathic, the Ayurvadic or the Unani or any other system of medicine, and the expression 'medical' shall be construed accordingly ; (c) "registered practitioner" means any person registered under the provisions of this Act, (d) "recognised medical qualification" means any of the medical qualifications referred to in the Schedule ; (e) "President" means President of the Council, (f) "Registrar" means a Registrar appointed under section 13 ; (g) "State Government" means the Government of Assam ; (h) "University" means any University in India established by law and having a medical faculty ; (i) the expression "legally qualified medical practitioner" and all other expressions importing a person recognised by law as a medical practitioner or a member of the medical profession, as used in any Assam Act or any Act of the Central Legislature in force in Assam, shall be deemed to mean a medical practitioner registered under this Act.