Definitions

In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:(a) “Act” means the Nagaland Anatomy Act, 2024. (b) “Approved institution” means a hospital or a medical or teaching institution approved by the State Government for an or any of the purposes of this Act. (c) “Authorized officer” means an officer authorized to act under section 3; (d) “Donor” shall have the same meaning as defined in the Transplantation of Human Organ and Tissues Act, 1994. (e) “Persons interested” means a near relative or any other person who is interested in the disposal of the body of the deceased person in accordance with the religious usage or social custom of such deceased. Explanation:- for purposes of this clause, “near relative” means any of the following relatives of the deceased, namely, wife, husband, parent, son, daughter, brother or sister and includes any other person who is related to the deceased (i) by lineal consanguinity within three degrees or by collateral consanguinity within six degrees, or (ii) by marriage with any of the relatives aforesaid. The expressions “lineal consanguinity” and “collateral consanguinity” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indian Succession Act, 1925, (Central Act XXXIX of 1925) and degrees of relationship shall be computed in the manner laid down in that Act; (d) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act. (e) “Teaching medical institution” means any of the institutions specified in the schedule to this Act, and includes any other institution which may be declared by the government, by notification in the official Gazette, to be a teaching medical institution for the purposes of this Act. (f) “Unclaimed body” means a body of a person who dies in a hospital, prison or public place or a place to which members of the public have got access and which has not been claimed by person interested within such time as may be prescribed.