In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) 'Act' means the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010.
(b) 'Rules' means the rules made under the Act.
(c) 'Authority' means the District Registering Authority established under section 10 of the Act.
(d) 'Certificate' means certificate of permanent registration issued under section 30 of the Act.
(e) 'Clinical Establishment' means.—
(i) a hospital, maternity home, nursing home, dispensary, clinic, sanatorium or an institution by whatever name called that offers services, facilities requiring diagnosis, treatment or care for illness, injury, deformity, abnormality or pregnancy in any recognised system of medicine established and administered or maintained by any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not; or
(ii) a place established as an independent entity or part of an establishment referred to in sub-clause (i), in connection with the diagnosis or treatment of diseases where pathological, bacteriological, genetic, radiological, chemical, biological investigations or other diagnosis or investigative services with the aid of laboratory or other medical equipment, are usually carried on, established and administered or maintained by any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, and shall include a clinical establishment owned, controlled or managed by— 47PART–II] LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT
(i) the Government or a department of the Government;
(ii) a trust, whether public or private;
(iii) a Corporation (including a society) registered under a Central, Provincial or State Act, whether or not owned by the Government:
(iv) a local authority, and
(v) a single doctor, but does not include the clinical establishments owned, controlled or managed by the Armed Forces constituted under the Army Act, 1950, the Air Force Act, 1950 and the Navy Act, 1957.
(f) 'Emergency Medical Condition' means a medical condition including any illness and/or intentional or accidental injury of any nature that may manifest itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) of such a nature that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in-
(i) placing the life or health of the individual or with respect to a pregnant woman, the life or health of the woman or her unborn child, in serious jeopardy.
(ii) serious impairment to bodily functions; or
(iii) serious defunction of any organ or part of a body.
(g) 'Form' means a Form appended in these rules.
(h) 'National Council' means the National Council for Clinical Establishments established under section 3(1) of the Act.
(i) 'Notification' means a notification published in the official gazette.
(j) 'State Council' means the Puducherry Council for Clinical Establishments established under the section 8 of the Act.
(k) 'Prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under the Act by the Central Government or Government of Puducherry, as the case may be.
(1) 'Recognised System of Medicine' means Allopathy, Yoga, Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Siddha and Unani system of medicines or any other system of medicine as may be recognised by the Central Government from time to time.
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(m) 'Register' means the register maintained by the authority, Government of Puducherry and the Central Government under sections 37, 38 and 39 respectively of the Act containing the number of clinical establishments registered.
(n) 'Registration' means to register under section 11 and the expression registration or registered shall be construed accordingly;
(o) 'Standards' means the conditions that the Central Government prescribed under section 12, for the registration of clinical establishments from time to time;
(p) 'State Government' means, the Administrator thereof appointed by the President under Article 239 of the Constitution; and
(q) 'To stabilize' means, with respect to an emergency medical condition specified in clause (f), to provide such medical treatment of the condition as may be necessary to assure, within reasonable medial probability, that no material deterioration of the condition is likely to result from or occur during the transfer of the individual from a clinical establishment.
The words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.