Section 25
Penalty for contravention of the provisions of the Act or rules for which no specific punishment is provided.
The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994
About this Act
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 matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or any rules made
thereunder, for which no penalty has been elsewhere provided in this Act, shall be punishable with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine, which may extend to one
thousand rupees or with both and in the case of continuing contravention with an additional fine which
may extend to five hundred rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after
conviction for the first such contravention.