Section 29: Interpretation.

In this Act -
"Approved" means for the time being approved by the Council;
"Board" means the Board established for the Council under section 3 of this Act;
"Council" means the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria established under section 2 (1) of this Act;
"Chairman" means the office-holder under that name in the Council;
"Committee" has the meaning assigned to it by section 15(1) of this Act;
"Enrolled" in relation to a Fellow or an Associate means registered in the part of the Register relating to Fellows or Associates as the case may be and in relation to any other member means registered in that part of the Register pertaining to the category of the particular member;
"Fees" includes annual subscriptions;
"Laboratory" means the Medical Laboratory under this Act, and where used in its adjectival sense it shall be construed accordingly;
"Medical Laboratory Science"-
(a) means the practice involving the analysis of human or animal tissues, body fluids, excretions, production of biologicals, design and fabrication of equipment for the purpose of medical laboratory diagnosis, treatment and research; and
(b) includes medical microbiology, clinical chemistry, chemical pathology, haematology, blood transfusion science, virology, histopathology, histochemistry, immunology, cytogenetic, exfoliativeytology parasitology, forensic science, molecular biology, laboratory management; or any other related subject as may be approved by the Council;
"Member" means member of the profession;
"Minister" means the Minister of Health;
"Panel" has the meaning assigned to it by section 15 (3) of this Act;
"Register" means the register maintained in pursuance of section 6 of this Act;
Scientist" means a person qualified for enrolment with the Council as a Fellow or as an Associate, as the case may be but does not include any person entitled in an honorary capacity.