In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "appointed day" means the date on which the provisions of this Act shall come into force under sub-section (2) of section;
(b) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer of the Procurement Authority established under this Act;
(c) "medical consumables" includes gloves, syringes, bandages, cotton wool, sutures, catheters, tubes, infusion sets, I.V. cannulas, etc., laboratory supplies including pipettes, blood collecting tubes and microscope supplies and surgical instruments such as scalpels, forceps, lancets, scissors, etc.;
(d) "medical device" means any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, appliance, implant, reagent for use, software, material or other similar or related article, intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings, for one or more of the specific medical purpose of,-
(i) diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease,
(ii) diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or healing of an injury,
(iii) investigation, replacement, modification or support of the anatomy or of a physiological process,
(iv) supporting or sustaining life,
(v) control of conception,
(vi) disinfection of medical devices,
(vii) providing information by means of examination of specimens derived from the human body,
and does not achieve its primary intended action by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, in or on the human body, but which may be assisted in its intended function by such means;
(e) "medical equipment" means the medical devices requiring calibration, maintenance, repair, user training and decommissioning - activities (usually managed by clinical or biomedical engineers) used for the specific purposes of diagnosis and treatment of disease or rehabilitation following disease or injury of human beings and can be used either alone or in combination with any accessory, consumable or other piece of medical device or medical equipment but excludes implantable, disposable or single-use medical devices;
(f) "medical goods" means medicines, medical consumables, medical devices, medical equipments or execution of turnkey projects therefor; and includes any other medical goods as the State Government may, from time to time, in consultation with Procurement Authority, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, to be the medical goods for the purposes of this Act;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) "procure" or "procurement" means the process of purchase, storage or supply of the medical goods;
(i) "Procurement Authority" means the Maharashtra Medical Goods Procurement Authority established under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(j) "regulations" means the regulations made under this Act;
(k) "rules" means the rules made under this Act;
(l) "Secretary" means Additional Chief Secretary or Principal Secretary or Secretary of any administrative Department of the State Government.