Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 23. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires a " child" means " person under the age of twenty-one years; "competent witness" means a witness not less than eighteen years of age;" dentist " means a person registered as a dentist under the Medical Ordinance; "medical consultant "means a person registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical Ordinance and who possesses any of the prescribed post-graduates qualifications "medical practitioner" means a person registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical Ordinance; "non-regenerative tissue" means tissues other than regenerative tissues; " prison , has the same meaning as in the Prisons Ordinance ; "re-generative tissue" means a tissue that, after injury or removal, is replaced in the body of a living person by natural process of growth or -repair; and" tissue" means any human flesh, organ, bone or body fluid, or part thereof. |