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CHAPTER II CHAPTER
III CHAPTER
IV CHAPTER V
Chapter I
INTRODUCTORY
1. Short title, extent and commencement. �(1) This Act may be called the
Pharmacy Act, 1948.
2[(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and
Kashmir.]
(3) It shall come into force at once, but Chapters III, IV and V shall take
effect in a particular State from such date 3[***] as the State Government may,
by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf:
4[Provided that where on account of the territorial changes brought about by
the reorganisation of States on the 1st day of November, 1956, Chapters III, IV
and V have effect only in a part of a State, the said Chapters shall take effect
in the remaining part of that State from such date as the State Government may
in like manner appoint.]
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 Pharmacy Council of India constituted under
section 3;
(d) �Central Register� means the register of pharmacists maintained by the
Central Council under section 15 A;
(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 Grants Commission Act, 1956, (3 of 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 (7 of 1916), or
specified in the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of
1956); or
(ii) registered or eligible for registration in a medical register of a State
meant for the registration of persons practising 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 practising 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 (16 of 1948); or
(v) who is engaged in the practise 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 the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of
1956).]
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