law: Pharmacy Act, 1948 
  2. Interpretation
  In this Act, unless
  
  there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
  (a)
  
  "agreement" means an agreement entered into under section 20 ;
  (b)
  
  "approved" means approved by the Central Council under section 12 or
  
  section 14 ;
   5  [(c) "Central
  
  Council" means the register of Pharmacy Council of India constituted under
  
  section 3;
  (d) "Central
  
  Register" means the register of pharmacists maintained by the Central
  
  Council under section 15A;
  (da) "Executive
  
  Committee" means the Executive Committee of the Central Council or of the
  
  State Council, as the context may require ;
  (e) "Indian
  
  University" means a University within the meaning of section 3 of the
  
  University Grant Commission Act, 1956 and includes such other institutions,
  
  being institutions established by or under a Central Act, as the Central
  
  Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this
  
  behalf;]
   6  [(f) "medical
  
  practitioner" means a person-
  (i) holding a qualification granted by an
  
  authority specified or notified under section 3 of the Indian Medical Degrees
  
  Act, 1916, or specified in the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act,
  
  1956; or
  (ii) registered or eligible for registration
  
  in a medical register of a State meant for the registration of persons
  
  practicing the modern scientific system of medicine; or
  (iii) registered in a medical register of a
  
  State, who, although not falling within sub-clause (i) or sub-clause (ii) is
  
  declared by a general or special order made by the State Government in this
  
  behalf as a person practicing the modern scientific system of medicine for the
  
  purposes of this Act ; or
  (iv) registered or eligible for registration
  
  in the register of dentists for a State under the Dentists Act, 1948 ; or
  (v) who is engaged in the practice of
  
  veterinary medicine and who possesses qualifications approved by the State
  
  Government;]
  (g) "prescribed" means in Chapter II
  
  prescribed by regulations made under section 18, and elsewhere prescribed by
  
  rules made under section 46;
   7  [(h) "register" means a register of
  
  pharmacists prepared and maintained under Chapter IV;
  (i) "registered pharmacist" means a
  
  person whose name is for the time being entered in the register of the State in
  
  which he is for the time being residing or carrying on his profession or
  
  business of pharmacy ;
  (j) "State Council" means a State Council
  
  of Pharmacy constituted under section 19, and includes a Joint State Council of
  
  Pharmacy constituted in accordance with an agreement under section 20;
  (k) "University Grants Commission"
  
  means the University Grants Commission established under section 4 of
  
  University Grant Commission Act, 1956.]
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