2. In this Act, unless the contexts otherwise requires : -
(1) Academic Council and Executive Council means, respectively, the Academic Council and the Executive Council of the University;
(2) Affiliated College or Affiliated Institution means a college or an institution affiliated to the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act and Statutes made thereunder;
(3) Appointed Date means the date notified by the State Government under sub-section (3) of section 1;
(4) ‘Dental Sciences, Medicine and Nursing’ shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Dentists Act, 1948, the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 and the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947;
(5) ‘Faculty’ means a Teaching Faculty of the University;
(6) ‘Government means the State Government of Uttar Pradesh;
(7) ‘Hostel’ means a unit of residence for students maintained or recognized by the University;
(8) ‘Management’ in relation to an affiliated college means the managing committee or other body charged with managing affairs of that college and recognized as such by the University;
(9) ‘Medical Sciences’ means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and include surgery, dental sciences, nursing, para-medcial sciences and other allied disciplines in all their branches;
(10)‘Prescribed’ means prescribed by the Statutes;
(11)‘Statutes’, ‘Ordinances’ and ‘Regulations’ means receptively the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University;
(12)‘Teacher’ means a teacher employed by the University or its Affiliated Colleges for imparting instructions or guiding or conducting research and includes a Director or a Principal of an Affiliated College;
(13)‘University’ means the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, Uttar Pradesh established under this Act.