Section 2. Definitions

In this Act- (1) 'Academic Council', 'Court' and 'Executive Council' mean respectively the Academic Council, the Court and the Executive Council of the University; (2) 'appointed date' means the date notified by the State Government under sub-section (2) of section 1; (3) 'dentistry' and 'medicine' shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Dentists Act, 1948 and [the Indian Medicine Act, 1956]3 respectively; (4) 'faculty' means a faculty of the University; (5) 'Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals' means the Gandhi Memorial Hospitals, the Queen Mary's Hospitals, the Kasturba Clinic and Hospitals (Tuberculosis), the Children Hospitals, the hospitals attached to the Faculty of Dental Sciences, the Leprosy Hospitals and Blood Bank, the Rehabilitation and Artificial Limb Centre and includes all hospitals, dispensaries and laboratories which are attached to or adjuncts of any of the aforementioned hospitals and the blood bank; (6) 'hostel' means a unit of residence for students, maintained or recognized by the University; (7) 'institutions' means the King George's Medical College and the Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals; (8) 'King George's Medical College' includes all dispensaries; lecture rooms, museums, laboratories, libraries, hostels and boarding houses used in connection with, or as accessories to, or adjuncts of the said College including the Dental Faculty thereof; (9) 'prescribed' means prescribed by the Statutes; (10) 'registered graduate' means a graduate of the University registered in accordance with the Statutes and includes a graduate who has acquired any medical degree as a student of the King George's Medical College before the appointed date; (11) 'Statutes', 'Ordinances' and 'Regulations' means respectively the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University; (12) 'teacher' means a teacher employed by the University for imparting [instruction or guiding or conducting research]4 in the University; (13) 'University' means the [King George's Medical University, Uttar Pradesh]5 established under this Act.