Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "active practice" means the regular management of medical or dental conditions by a medical or dental practitioner in public or private practice;
"chairperson" means the chairperson of the council appointed under section 4(1)(a) ;
"council" means the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council established under section 2 ;
"dentist" means a person who qualifies to practise dentistry under this Act;
"drug" means any substance or preparation used or intended to be used for internal or external application to the human body either in treatment of disease or for improving physiological functions;
"Gazette" means the Uganda Gazette and includes the Gazette Extraordinary;
"health unit" includes a private hospital, clinic, nursing home, maternity centre or other specialised establishment as well as Government units of the same nature;
"internship" means the prescribed period of supervised practice from the time a practitioner obtains the first degree to the time of satisfying the supervisor that the practitioner is competent;
"minimum continuing education" means the attendance by a medical or dental practitioner of at least one medical or dental seminar, workshop or other training event in a year;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for health;
"national" means a citizen of Uganda;
"nursing home" means a health unit which is neither denominational nor Governmental, that is large or small, manned by at least a fully registered practitioner for the purpose of treating general or specialised patients as outpatients or inpatients or both;
"practitioner" means a person registered under section 21 to practise medicine, surgery or dentistry;
"private health unit" means a health unit not established by the central government or a local government;
"private practice" means the practice of medicine or dentistry by a registered practitioner either alone or in partnership in a registered premises on his own account or that of the partnership;
"provisional registration" means registration made under section 23 ;
"public health unit" means a health unit established by the central government or a local council;
"qualification" includes a medical or dental diploma, certificate, degree or other document or written authority granted or awarded by a university, corporation, college or other body acting under the authority of the government of any country;
"register" means a register of medical or dental practitioners or specialists or of health units maintained by the registrar under section 19 ;
"registrar" means the registrar of the council appointed under section 7 ;
"registered dental surgery" means a premises duly registered by the council where private practice is carried out by a registered dentist;
"registered medical clinic" means a premises duly registered by the council where private practice is carried out by a registered medical practitioner;
"specialised establishment" means a premises, including laboratories and radiological units, duly registered by the council where private diagnostic or medical support services, including physiotherapy or other support services, are rendered;
"specialist" means a practitioner who has trained full time for not less than three years in an institution or in different institutions under guidance of a consultant or consultants or senior professionals in the relevant field of medical or dental practice and has obtained a post graduate qualification;
"specialist register" means the register of medical or dental specialists;
"temporary registration" means registration made under section 17(4) .
Section analysis Source linked
This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "active practice" means the regular management of medical or dental conditions by a medical or dental practitioner in public or private practice;”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- (b) "chairperson" means the chairperson of the council appointed under section 4(1)(a);
- (c) "council" means the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council established under section 2;
- (d) "dentist" means a person who qualifies to practise dentistry under this Act;
- (e) "drug" means any substance or preparation used or intended to be used for internal or external application to the human body either in treatment of disease or for improving physiological functions;
- (f) "Gazette" means the Uganda Gazette and includes the Gazette Extraordinary;
- (g) "health unit" includes a private hospital, clinic, nursing home, maternity centre or other specialised establishment as well as Government units of the same nature;
- (h) "internship" means the prescribed period of supervised practice from the time a practitioner obtains the first degree to the time of satisfying the supervisor that the practitioner is competent;
- (i) "minimum continuing education" means the attendance by a medical or dental practitioner of at least one medical or dental seminar, workshop or other training event in a year;
17 further items remain in the statutory text above.
Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.
No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.
No section-specific amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.