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ORDINANCE XLV OF 2001 ORDINANCE XLV OF 2001 BALOCHISTAN CLINICAL LABORATORIES REGULATORY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE, 2001 . An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Balochistan Clinical Laboratories Authority in the Province of Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 3rd November, 2001] No.Legis.2‑92/Law/98, dated 3‑11‑2001.‑‑The following Ordinance made by the Governor of Balochistan on 27th October, 2001, is hereby published for general information:‑‑ 2. Definitions.‑‑‑In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meaning hereby respectively assigned to them that is to say:‑ (a) "Accreditation" means the process of officially recognizing registering, categorizing, and licensing a Clinical Laboratory; (b) "Accredited Clinical Laboratory" means a Clinical Laboratory officially recognized and licensed to provide clinical laboratory services in the provinces, guaranteed to provide a certain level of professional quality according to its recognized category; (e) "Authority" means the Balochistan Clinical Laboratory Regulatory Authority; (d) "Clinical Laboratory" means any premises or unit independent or in a clinical or hospital building where practice of pathology or one or more of its recognized disciplines is carried out. But it does not include a unit or premises independent or in a clinic or hospital building where practice of other diagnostic disciplines of medicine like radiology etc, is carried out; (e) "Department" means a specialized unit in an institution clinic, or hospital, which is specifically undertaking the practice of the discipline of pathology or one of its sub‑disciplines; (f) "Licensee" means a Clinical Laboratory duly issued a Licence to operate by the Authority in the Province; (g) "Medical Practitioner" means a Physician or such other person who is trained and holds qualifications and is recognized for the purpose of providing medical care to a patient and practice of medical science in Pakistan, by an official body such the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, or equivalent Provincial body. (h) "Pathologist" means a qualified physician with necessary postgraduate qualification recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council to practice the discipline of Pathology; (i) "Pathology practice" means the practice of the discipline of medical science, which reveals with the analysis, and testing of human tissues excrements, body fluids, etc., for the purpose of diagnosis of disease or medial assessment of a human being. The main sub‑disciplines of the subject of Pathology include Histopathology, Chemical Pathology, Hematology, Clinical Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology; (j) "Physician" means a medical graduate holding M.B.B.S. or equivalent qualification recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. But it also includes a qualified Dental Graduate holding B.D.S. or equivalent qualification recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. It also includes postgraduate doctors in any discipline recognized for practice of medical science by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. (k) "Province" means the Province of Balochistan (l) "Government" means the Government of Balochistan (m) "Regulations" means regulations made under this Ordinance; (n) "Rules' mean rules made under this Ordinance.