In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "casual vacancy” means a vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time in any office filled by election or nomination;
(b) "Council" means the Himachal Pradesh Medical Council constituted under section 3 of this Act;
(c) "Executive Committee" means the Executive Committee of the Council constituted under section 11 of this Act;
(d) "Government" means the Government of Himachal Pradesh;
(e) "medical practitioner" or "practitioner" means a person who is engaged in the practice of modern scientific system of
1. Passed in Hindi by the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects and Reasons see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary), dated 18th July, 2003, pp. 874 and 892.
THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MEDICAL COUNCIL ACT, 2003 3 medicine and all its branches and has qualification as prescribed in the First, Second or Third Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956);
(f) "medicine" means the modern scientific system of medicine and includes surgery and obstetrics but does not include veterinary medicine or veterinary surgery or the Homoeopathic or the Ayurveda or the Siddha or the Unani system of medicine and the expression "medical" shall be construed accordingly;
(g) "member" means a member of the Council;
(h) "Official Gazette" means the Rajpatra of Himachal Pradesh;
(i) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(j) "President" means the President of the Council;
(k) "Vice-President" means the Vice-President of the Council;
(l) "register" means the register of medical practitioners prepared or deemed to prepared and maintained under this Act;
(m) "registered practitioner" means a medical practitioner having requisite qualification as prescribed in the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) and whose name is, for the time being entered in the register, but does not include a person whose name is provisionally entered in the register;
and
(n) "Registrar" or "Deputy Registrar" means the Registrar or the Deputy Registrar, as the case may be, appointed under section 14 of this Act.
CHAPTER-II ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNCIL