2. Definitions.

(a) "approved institution" means a hospital or a medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes approved by the State Government for the purposes of this Act;
(b) "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 -
(i) by lineal or collateral consanguinity within three degrees in lineal relationship and six-degrees in collateral relationship ; or
(ii) by marriage either with the deceased or with any relative specifically mentioned in this clause or with any other relative within the aforesaid degrees.
[(c) "registered medical practitioner (ophthalmic)" means a medical practitioner who possesses a recognised medical qualification, included in the First and Third Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and possesses a post-graduate qualification in ophthalmology or a certificate showing that he has received training in nucleation procedure in the ophthalmic department of a hospital or a teaching institution for therapeutic purposes approved by the State Government in this behalf and who is enrolled on a State Medical Register as defined in clause (k) of section 2 of the said Act.] .