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DefInitions: In this Act unless there is anything npuDnant in the subject or context:'' (a) “Act” means the Nagal£nd Anatomy Act, 2024. (b) “Approved fnsdtudon” 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 oHcer authorized to act under section 3 ; {d) “Donor” shall have the same meaning as defiled in the Transplantation of Human Organ and Tissues Act, 1994 V I 1 (e) “Persons interested” means a near relative or any other person who is interested in the dispo§al of the body of the deceased person in accordance with the religious ugage or social custom of such deceased. 8 $iiI: iF The Nagaland Gazette, Part-V 15 June, 2024 Explanation:= for purposes of this clause, “near relative” means any of the following relatives of the deceased, namely, wife, husband, paren\ son, daughter, brother or sister and indludes+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 “!ineal Consanguinity” and “collateral consanguinity” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indian Succession Act, 1925, (Central . Act m}{lX of 1925) uld degrees of relationship shall be computed h the manner laid do\yn in that Act; (d) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act. (e) “Teaching medical. institution” means any of the blstitutions specified jn 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 prescdbed.