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Start Free TrialPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Section 22
Title: Prohibition of Advertisement Relating to Pre-conception and Pre-natal Determination of Sex and Punishment for Contravention
State: Central
Year: 1994
.....or otherwise. ( 3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section ( 1) or sub-section ( 2) shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, "advertisement" includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper or any other document including advertisement through internet or any other media in electronic or print form and also includes any visible representation made by means of any hoarding, wall-painting, signal, light, sound, smoke or gas.'. _______________________ 1 . Substituted b y Act 14 of 2003 , sec. 18 , for section 22 (see Annexe).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Complete Act
Title: Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994
State: Central
Year: 1994
.....advertisement relating to pre-conception and pre-natal determination of sex and punishment for contravention Section23 - Offences and penalties Section24 - Presumption in the case of conduct of pre-natal diagnostic techniques Section25 - Penalty for contravention of the provisions of the Act or rules for which no specific punishment is provided Section26 - Offences by companies Section27 - Offence to be cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable Section28 - Cognizance of offences Chapter VIII Section29 - Maintenance of records Section30 - Power to search and seize records, etc Section31 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section31A - Removal of difficulties Section32 - Power to make rules Section33 - Power to make regulations Section34 - Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament Annexe1 - ANNEXE Amending Act1 - PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE) AMENDMENT ACT, 2002 Amending Act2 - PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE) AMENDMENT ACT, 2001
List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Preamble 1
Title: Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection)act,1994
State: Central
Year: 1994
THE PRE-CONCEPTION AND PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PROHI BITION OF SEX SELECTION) ACT, 1994 [Act, No. 57 of 1994] [ 20 th September, 1994 ] PREAMBLE 1[An Act to provide for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for the purposes of detecting genetic abnormalities or me tabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or certain congenital malformations or sex-linked disorders and for the prevention of their misuse for sex determination leading to female foeticide and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.] B e it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- ____________________ 1 . Substituted b y Act 14 of 2003 , sec. 2 , for the long title (see Annexe).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Section 6
Title: Determination of Sex Prohibited
State: Central
Year: 1994
On and from the commencement of this Act,-- (a) no Genetic Counselling Centre or Genetic Laboratory or Genetic Clinic sh all conduct or cause to be conducted in its Centre, Laboratory or Clinic, pre-natal diagnostic techniques including ultrasonography, for the purpose of determining the sex of a foetus; (b) no person sh all conduct or cause to be conducted any pre-natal diagnostic techniques including ultrasonography for the purpose of determining the sex of a foetus. 1[(c) no person sh all, by whatever me ans, cause or allow to be caused selection of sex before or after conception.] ____________________ 1 . Inserted b y Act 14 of 2003 , sec. 9 .
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Section 3A
Title: Prohibition of Sex-selection
State: Central
Year: 1994
1[3A. Prohibition of sex-selection No person, including a specialist or a team of specialists in the field of infertility, shall conduct or cause to be conducted or aid in conducting by himself or by any other person, sex selection on a woman or a man or on both or on any tissue, embryo, conceptus, fluid or gametes derived from either or both of them. ____________________ 1 . Inserted b y Act 14 of 2003 , sec. 6 .
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Section 5
Title: Written Consent of Pregnant Woman and Prohibition of Communicating the Sex of Foetus
State: Central
Year: 1994
( 1) No person referred to in clause ( 2) of section 3 shall conduct the pre-natal diagnostic procedures unless-- (a) he has explained all known side and after effects of such procedures to the pregnant woman concerned; (b) he has obtained in the prescribed form her written consent to undergo such procedures in the language which she understands; and (c) a copy of her written consent obtained under clause (b) is given to the pregnant woman. 1[( 2) No person including the person conducting pre-natal diagnostic procedures shall communicate to the pregnant woman concerned or her relatives or any other person the sex of the foetus by words, signs, or in any other manner.] ____________________ 1 . Substituted b y Act 14 of 2003 , Sec. 8 , for sub -section ( 2 ) (see Annexe).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Chapter VIII
Title: Miscellaneous
State: Central
Year: 1994
.....(REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE) AMENDMENT ACT, 2002 THE PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE) AMENDMENT ACT, 2002 [Act, No. 14 of 2003] [17th January, 2003] An Act further to amend the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- 1. Short title and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Preventin of Misuse) Amendment Act, 2002. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Substitution of long title In the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the long title, the following long title shall be substituted, namely:-- "An Act to provide for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for the purposes of detecting genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Amending Act 1
Title: Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Amendment Act, 2002
State: Central
Year: 1994
..... [Act, No. 14 of 2003] [17th January, 2003] An Act further to amend the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- 1. Short title and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Preventin of Misuse) Amendment Act, 2002. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Substitution of long title In the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the long title, the following long title shall be substituted, namely:-- "An Act to provide for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for the purposes of detecting genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or certain congenital malformations or sex-linked disorders and for the prevention of their misuse for sex determination leading to female foeticide and for.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Chapter I
Title: Preliminary
State: Central
Year: 1994
.....disorders orchromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies orsex-linked diseases;] (l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (m) "registered medicalpractitioner" means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognised medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of section 2 ofthe Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956),and whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register; (n) "regulations" means regulations framed by the Board under this Act; 1 [(o)"sex selection" includes any procedure, technique, test oradministration or prescription or provision of anything for the purpose ofensuring or increasing the probability that an embryo will be of a particularsex; (p) "sonologist or imaging specialist" means a person who possesses any one of the medical qualifications recognised under the Indian MedicalCouncil Act, 1956 (102 of 1956)or who possesses a post-graduate qualification in ultrasonography or imagingtechniques or radiology; (q) "State Board" means a State Supervisory Boardor a Union territory Supervisory Boardconstituted under section 16A; (r) "State Government" in relation toUnion territory with.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Annexe 1
Title: Annexe
State: Central
Year: 1994
.....or Genetic Clinic after the commencement of this Act unless such Centre, Laboratory or Clinic is duly registered separately or jointly under this Act. Section 22 22. Prohibition of advertisement relating to pre-natal determination of sex and punishment for contravention (1) No person, Organisation, Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory or Genetic Clinic shall issue or cause to be issued any advertisement in any manner regarding facilities of pre-natal determination of sex available at such Centre, Laboratory, Clinic or any other place. (2) No person or organisation shall publish or distribute or cause to be published or distributed any advertisement in any manner regarding facilities of pre-natal determination of sex available at any Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory, Genetic Clinic or any other place. (3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, "advertisement" includes any notice, circular, label wrapper or other document.....
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