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Section 26 - Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021
The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021
26. Sex selection.-
(1) Subject to the provisions of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, (57 of 1994) the clinic shall not offer to provide a couple or woman with a child of a pre-determined sex.
(2) It is prohibited for anyone to do any act, at any stage, to determine the sex of the child to be born through the process of assisted reproductive technology to separate, or yield fractions enriched in sperm of X or Y variations.
(3) A person shall not knowingly provide, prescribe or administer anything that shall ensure or increase the probability that an embryo shall be of a particular sex, or that shall identify the sex of an in-vitro embryo, except to diagnose, prevent or treat a sex-linked disorder or disease.
Related Sections
- Section 38: Power of Central Government to issue directions to National Board, National Registry and appropriate authority
- Section 27: Sourcing of gametes by assisted reproductive technology banks
- Section 41: Protection of action taken in good faith
- Section 34: Punishment for contravention of provisions of Act or rules for which no specific punishment is provided
- Section 17: Renewal of registration
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- Farm Laws Repeal Act, 2021
- National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Act, 2018
- Central Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Act, 2017
- Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act, 2019
- Anti-Hijacking Act, 2016