Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) "Artificial Insemination" or "AI" means the process of depositing disease free bovine semen artificially in the uterus of a mature bovine female with intention of making it conceived; (b) "Artificial Insemination Service Provider" means a person who provides the artificial insemination services through registered artificial insemination technicians; (c) "Artificial Insemination Technician" means a person except veterinarian who possesses requisite qualification of AI training course or refresher course, as the case may be, from an accredited AI training institute by State Government or / and Central Government and already having registration with Authority; (d) "Assisted Reproductive Technology" or "ART" means the techniques being utilized for bovine breed improvement and treatment of infertility in bovines which includes artificial insemination involved in embryo transplant, oocyte pickup, In-vitro maturation and fertilization of bovine oocytes, embryo manipulation, freezing, storage and deposition of embryo in female genital tract, cloning, intra cytoplasm sperm injection and synchronization of estrus; (e) "Assisted Reproductive Technology expert" or "ART expert" means a registered veterinarian, who possesses requisite qualifications, skill and experience in assisted reproductive technology for providing the assisted reproductive technology services, as may be prescribed; (f) "Assisted Reproductive Technology service provider" or "ART service provider" means a person, who provides assisted reproductive technology services through registered assisted reproductive technology experts; (g) "Authority" means the Gujarat Bovine Breeding Regulatory Authority established under section 9; (h) "Bovine" means a cow, cow-bull, cow-heifer, buffalo, buffalo-bull and buffalo-heifer; (i) "Bovine breeding activities" means breeding activities in bovine that include use of bovine bulls, production, storage, transportation and use of frozen semen, embryos and oocytes or use of reproductive organs; (j) "Certified bull" means a bovine bull certified by the Authority, which is kept for semen production for a particular bovine breed and meets the prescribed standards; (k) "Embryo Transplant or In-vitro Fertilization laboratory" or "ET or IVF laboratory" means any premises, where a facility is set up for collection, processing, storage and transplant of bovine germ plasm or embryos and the use of bovine semen for fertilization of oocytes by either in-vivo or In-vitro method including the deposition of bovine embryos in female genital tract of recipient bovine female; (l) "Government" means the Government of Gujarat; (m) "person" shall include any company or association of persons or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not; (n) "premises" means any land, premises, yard, building, vessel, vehicle or any other location used for bovine breeding activity; (o) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (p) "Misbranded Semen" means semen doses of breeding bull whose DNA profile does not match with the DNA profile of the semen doses kept in the records of the semen station or semen straw; (q) "Natural service" means use of breedable healthy bulls for making female bovines pregnant by natural mating; (r) "Research institute" means an institute run by a person, with intent to use live animals or semen or embryos or oocytes or reproductive organs in research, tests or experiments for scientific investigation or in a systematic search for facts; (s) "Semen" means the semen or sexed semen of cow bull or buffalo bull in any form; (t) "Semen bank" means any premise where the bovine semen is stored for trading or distribution; (u) "Semen station" means an approved premise, where a facility is set up for collection, processing, storage and distribution of bovine semen for artificial insemination; (v) "Sexed sorted Semen" or "sexed semen" means semen having sperms to produce more progenies of a desired sex; (w) "State" means the State of Gujarat; (x) "Veterinarian" means a registered veterinary practitioner defined in the Indian Veterinary Council Act, 1984. (52 of 1984).