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VIII of 1948. West Ben. Act VIII of 1996. PART III] THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, DECEMBER 18, 2015 3 The West Bengal Allied-Medical and Para-Medical Council Act, 2015. (Chapter I.—Preliminary.—Section 2.) (d) "Allied or Para-Medical Practitioner" means a person, whose name has been entered in the registers of the Allied-Medical and Para-Medical Council; (e) "Council" means a common West Bengal Council of Medical Laboratory Technology or Radiology Technology or Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy or any such Allied-Medical and Para-Medical Professionals as the case may be, constituted under section 3 having sets of separate registers for different Allied-Medical or Para-Medical discipline each having a distinct identity of its own; (0 "Department" means Department of Health and Family Welfare, State Government of West Bengal; (g) "Executive Committee" means the Executive Committee of the Council; (h) "Education" means programmes of education, research or training or such other areas of programmes as the State Government may, in consultation with the Council by notification, declare in such Allied-Medical and Para- Medical disciplines each having a distinct identity of its own as mentioned in Schedule II; (i) "Fund" means the fund of the Council established under section 66; (j) "State Government" means the State Government of West Bengal in the Department of Health and Family Welfare; (k) "Institution" means a professional educational college or an Institution including Board or University, by whatever name called, established by law for imparting education under this Act, which may lead to award of any degree, diploma or license in Allied-Medical or Para-Medical discipline; (1) "Medical laboratory" means a laboratory for diagnostic, therapeutic and research purpose being manned by qualified technical personnel under the supervision of a Medical professional or any such competent person; (m) "Member" means a member of the Allied-Medical and Para-Medical Council and includes its President and Vice-President; (n) "Non-pharmacological therapy" means and includes any recognized form of therapy like physiotherapy, occupational therapy, counseling, dietary advice, etc. but shall not include therapies, which can only be administered by a registered Medical practitioner, like acupuncture, radiotherapy etc.; (o) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (p) "Para-Medical professional" means any person having adequate professional qualification, who can practice his profession to assist a registered Medical practitioner in practice, or teaching or research of medicine but who cannot administer any pharmacological or non- pharmacological therapy and shall include professionals, like Medical Technician or Technologists (laboratory medicine), Medical Technician or Technologists(Optometry), etc., educated in such disciplines as mentioned in part B of Schedule II but shall not include Pharmacists, Nurses, or Allied-Medical professionals; (q) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (r) "Professional courses" means the courses conducted in any of the discipline mentioned in the schedule of disciplines and such other courses as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare; 4 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, DECEMBER 18, 2015 [PART III The West Bengal Allied-Medical and Para-Medical Council Act, 2015. (Chapter IL—The Council.—Sections 3, 4.) (s) "register" means the register maintained under sub-section (1) of section 50; (t) "Registrar" means Registrar of the Council as appointed under sub-section (1) of section 27; (u) "Registration and Disciplinary Sub-Committee" means such committee constituted under section 25; (v) "Regulations" means regulations made under this Act; (w) "State Medical Faculty" means 'the State Medical Faculty of West Bengal' established under Bengal Govt. Resolution No. 2545 Medl. Dated 1 Ph August, 1914; (x) "Schedule of Discipline" means a Schedule appended to this Act; (y) "University" means a University defined under clause (f) of section 2 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and includes an Institution declared to be a deemed University under section 3 of the said Act. 3 of 1956. CHAPTER II The Council Establishment and incorporation of the Council. Composition of Council.