The Bombay Corneal Grafting Proceedings Act, 1957

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    "title": "The Bombay Corneal Grafting Proceedings Act, 1957",
    "short_title": "The Bombay Corneal Grafting Proceedings Act, 1957",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No 33 of 1957",
    "act_year": 1957,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "description": "The Bombay Corneal Grafting Proceedings Act, 1957",
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            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(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;\n(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 (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 aforesaid degrees.\n[(bb) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;]\n(c) \"registered medical practitioner\" means a practitioner practising any system of medicine and recognised as a registered medical practitioner under any law for the time being in force in India.\n[2A. Power to prescribe procedure and conditions for approval of institutions.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Removal of eyes of deceased person.",
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            "content": "(a) that the deceased has expressed an objection to his eyes being so dealt with after his death, and had not withdrawn such objection; or\n(b) that a near relative of the deceased objects to the deceased's eyes being so dealt with",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Authority when not to be given.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. No authority for removal of eyes when body is entrusted to person by another only for cremation, etc.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Authority to remove eyes when body is lying in approved institution.",
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            "content": "[6A. Power to make rules.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Saving.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Amendment of Bombay XI of 1949.",
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            "content": "(a) in the long title and preamble, after the words \"teaching institutions\" the words \"for therapeutic purposes or\" shall be inserted;\n(b) in Section 2, in clause (1), for the words \"to carry on anatomical examination and dissection\" the words \"for all or any of the purposes of this Act; shall be substituted;\n(c) in Section 5, in sub-section (1) after the words \"approved institution\" words \"for any therapeutic purpose or\" shall be inserted.",
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        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No 33 of 1957",
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        "Act Year": "1957",
        "Short Title": "The Bombay Corneal Grafting Proceedings Act, 1957",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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