(1) These rules may be called the Madhya Pradesh Upcharyagriha Tatha Rujopchar Sambandhi Sthapanaye (Registrikaran Tatha Anugyapan) Rules, 1997.
(2) These rules shall apply in local areas as defined herein.
2 Definitions . — In these, rules, unless the context otherwise requires : —
(a) ‘Act’ means the Madhya Pradesh Upcharyagriha Tatha Rujopchar Sambandhi Sthapanaye (Registrikaran Tatha Anugyapan) Adhiniyam 1973 (No 47 of 1973) ;
(b) ‘Form’ means a form appended to these rules;
(c) ‘Infectious Disease’ mean a disease which a Registered Medical Practitioner is required to notify to the Medical and Health Officer of his area under the law for the time being in force;
(d) ‘Keeper or Owner of Nursing Home or Clinical Establishment’ means a person who has been duly registered by the supervising authority in respect of Nursing Home or a Clinical Establishment under sub-section (3) of Section 4 of the Act and whose registration has not been cancelled under Section 5 of the Act;
(e) 'Local area' means the area comprised within the local limits of a Municipal Corporation or a Municipality or a Nagar Panchayat constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act, 1956 or the Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1961, as the case may be or any other area declared to be a local area for the purposes of this Act by the State Government by notification in the official Gazette.
(f) 'Section' means of section of the Act;
(g) 'Schedule' means a Schedule appended to these rules.