“medical practitioner”

The Code on Social Security, 2020 · s. 2

(44) "medical practitioner" means a person registered under any law for the time being in force, or, any person declared by the State Government, by notification, to be qualified as medical practitioner for the purposes of this Code: Provided that different class or classes of medical practitioner having specific qualification may be notified by the Central Government for the purposes of Chapter IV and by the appropriate Government for other Chapters of this Code;

The Dentists Act, 1948 · s. 2

(f) "medical practitioner" means a person who holds a qualification granted by an authority specified or notified under section 3 of the Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916 (7 of 1916), or specified in the Schedules to the[4] [Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956),][5] [or specified in any other law for the time being in force in any State,] or who practises any system of medicine and is registered or is entitled to be registered in any[6] [State] medical register by whatever name called;

The Pharmacy Act, 1948 · s. 2

(f) "medical practitioner" means a person—