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No. 23
Traditional and Alternative Medicine
2002
"aide" means a person enrolled under section 15(3) ofthis Act:
"alternative health practitioner" means a person formally trained and
has acquired knowledge, skills and competence in alternative medicine practices and disciplines as recognised internationally;
"alternative medicine" means the total sum of knowledge and practice
used in diagnostic, prevention and elimination of physical, mental
and social imbalance relying exclusively on various established alternative medicine system of respective disciplines;
"alternative medicine remedy" means and includes methods or processes
used for curing or any preparations derived from plants, animals or
mineral products that mayor may not contain chemical characteristics of such substances from which it is derived but has the therapeutic effect in the intended individual and preparations of such a remedy follows the systems of alternative medicine and discipline employed;
"'Committee" means a Committee ofthe Council established under section 8(1);
"Council" means the Traditional and Alternative Health Practice Council established under section 4 of this Act;
"discipline" means knowledge and practices established and accepted
internationally such as homoeopathy, chiropractic, massage,
aromatherapy, acupuncture ayurvedic medicine and others recognized
by the Council;
"herbal medicines" means plant derived material or preparations with
the therapeutic or other human benefits, which contain either raw or
processed ingredients from one or more plants; in some traditions
material of in organic or animal origin may also be present;
"hospital" means an establishment providing out patient and inpatient
general services;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for matters related to health;
"register" means the Register of registered traditional and alternative
health practitioners;
"Registrar" means the Registrar of the Council appointed under section
9',
"registration" means inclusion into the Register of traditional and alternative health practitioner;
"rolls" means rolls kept by the Registrar in which the names and particulars of persons enrolled are entered;
"professional misconduct" means a conduct connected with the traditional or alternative health practice in which the practitioner has fallen
short by act or omission, of the standards of conduct expected among
the members of the profession and such falling short is serious in the