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    "id": 14992,
    "slug": "arunachal-pradesh-anatomy-act-2017-2017",
    "title": "Arunachal Pradesh Anatomy Act, 2017",
    "short_title": "Arunachal Pradesh Anatomy Act, 2017",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 6 of 2017)",
    "act_year": 2017,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Arunachal Pradesh Anatomy Act, 2017",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) \"Approved Institution\" means a hospital or a medical or an allied institution as may be declared by the state Government by notification in the official Gazette to be an approved institution for the purpose of this Act.\n(ii) \"Authorized Officer\" means an officer authorized to Act under this Act.\n(iii) \"Hospital\" means any hospital established or maintained by the State Government or by any Municipal Council, Municipality, Board or Panchayat and includes any other hospital (private) which may be declared by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, to be such hospital for the purpose of this Act.\n(iv) \"Near Relative\" means any of the following relatives of the deceased namely, a wife, husband, parent, son, daughter, brother and sister and includes any other person who is related to the deceased (a) by lineal or collateral consanguinity within three degrees in lineal relationship and six degrees in collateral relationship, or (b) by marriage either with the deceased or with any relative specifically mentioned in this clause or with any other relative within the aforesaid degrees.\n(v) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.\n(vi) \"Unclaimed Body\" means body of the deceased person who has no near relative or whose body has not been claimed by any of his near relatives within such period as may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "3. Power of State Government to authorize officers to act under section 4.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Procedures in case of unclaimed dead bodies in hospitals, or orphanges, senior citizens’ homes, ashrams, Jails and public places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Donation of bodies or part thereof of deceased persons for anatomical examination etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) That the deceased had expressed an objection to his body or any part thereof being so dealt with after his death, and had not withdrawn such objection; or\n(ii) That any near relative of the deceased refused to the explanation of clause (iv) of section 2 objects to the body being so dealt with.\n(i) Within forty eight hours from the time of such person's death; or\n(ii) Until after twenty four hours notice (to be reckoned from the time of such death) to the Executive Magistrate of the intended removal of the body; or The Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette, June 13, 2017 3\n(iii) Unless a certificate stating in what manner such person came by his death shall, previously to the removal of the body has been signed by the registered medical practitioner who attended such person during the illness, then by a registered medical practitioner who shall be called in after the death of such state the manner and cause of death according to the best of his knowledge and belief but who shall not be concerned in dealing with the body for any purposes aforesaid removal and in case of such removal, such certificate shall be delivered together with the body to the authority in-charge of an approved institution receiving the same for any of the purpose aforesaid.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Doubt or dispute as to near relative to be referred to Magistrate of the First Class.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Penalty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Duty of Police and other officers to assist in obtaining possession of unclaimed bodies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Protection of persons acting under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "aru010",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 6 of 2017)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2017",
        "Short Title": "Arunachal Pradesh Anatomy Act, 2017",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Arunachal Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}