law: Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,--
  (a) "advertisement" includes any
  
  form of advertising whether to the public generally or to any section of the public
  
  or individually to selected persons;
  (b) "Appropriate Authority" means
  
  the Appropriate Authority appointed under section 13;
  (c) "Authorization Committee" means
  
  the committee constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (4) of
  
  section 9;
  (d) "brain-stem death" means the
  
  stage at which all functions of the brain-stem have permanently and
  
  irreversibly ceased and is so certified under sub-section (6) of section 3;
  (e) "deceased person" means a person
  
  in whom permanent disappearance of all evidence of life occurs, by reason of
  
  brain-stem death or in a cardio-pulmonary sense, at any time after live birth
  
  has taken place;
  (f) "donor" means any person, not
  
  less than eighteen years of age, who voluntarily authorizes the removal of any of
  
  his human organs for therapeutic purposes under sub-section (1) or sub-section
  
  (2) of section 3;
  (g) "hospital" includes a nursing
  
  home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic
  
  purposes and other like institution;
  (h) "human organ" means any part of
  
  a human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues which, if
  
  wholly, removed, cannot be replicated by the body;
  (i) "near relative" means spouse,
  
  son, daughter, father, mother brother or sister;
  (j) "notification" means a
  
  notification published in the Official Gazette;
  (k) "payment" means payment in money
  
  or money's worth but does not include any payment for defraying or reimbursing-
  (i) the cost of
  
  removing, transporting or preserving the human organ to be supplied; or
  (ii) any expenses or
  
  loss of earnings incurred by a person so far as reasonably and directly
  
  attributable to his supplying any human organ from his body.
  (l)
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  (m) " recipient"
  
  means a person into whom any human organ is, or is proposed to be,
  
  transplanted;
  (n) "registered
  
  medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner who possesses any
  
  recognized medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of section 2 of the
  
  Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and who is enrolled on a State Medical
  
  Register as defined in clause (k) of that section;
  (o) "therapeutic
  
  purpose" means systematic treatment of any disease or the measures to
  
  improve health according to any particular method or modality; and
  (p)
  
  "transplantation" means the grafting of any human organ from any
  
  living person or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic
  
  purposes.