Definitions

In these rules unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Act" means the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994; (b) "cadaver(s)" , "organ(s)" and "tissue(s)" means human cadaver(s), human organ(s) and human tissue(s), respectively; (c) "competent authority" means the Head of the institution or hospital carrying out transplantation or committee constituted by the head of the institution or hospital for the purpose; (d) "Form" means a Form annexed to these rules; (e) National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) means the autonomous body established under the aegis of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India with the objective to provide Government, Regulators and Industry with a scheme of laboratory accreditation through third-party assessment for formally recognising the technical competence of laboratories and the accreditation services are provided for testing and calibration of medical laboratories in accordance with International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Standards; (f) "the technician who can enucleate cornea" means the technician with any of the following qualifications and experience who can harvest corneas (enucleate eyeballs or excise corneas), namely:- (i) Ophthalmologists possessing a Doctor of Medicine (M.D) or Master of Surgery (M.S) in Ophthalmology or Diploma in Ophthalmology (D.O.); and (ii) registered Doctors from all recognised systems of medicine, Nurses, Paramedical Ophthalmic Assistant, Ophthalmic Assistant, Optometrists, Refractionists, Paramedical Worker or Medical Technician with recognised qualification from all recognised systems of medicine, provided the person is duly trained to enucleate a donated cornea or eye from registered, authorised and functional eye Bank or Government medical college and, the training certificate should mention that he has acquired the required skills to independently conduct enucleation of the eye or removal of cornea from a cadaver; (g) words and expressions used and not defined in these rules, but defined in the Act, shall have the same meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the Act.