Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021

Year: 2021

Enactment Date: 2021-12-18

Long Title: An Act for the regulation and supervision of the assisted reproductive technology clinics and the assisted reproductive technology banks, prevention of misuse, safe and ethical practice of assisted reproductive technology services for addressing the issues of reproductive health where assisted reproductive technlogy is required for becoming a parent or for freezing gametes, embryos, embryonic tissues for further use due to infertility, disease or social or medical concerns and for regulation and supervision of research and development and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department: Department of Health Research

Section 25: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis.
    (1) The Pre-implantation Genetic testing shall be used to screen the human embryo for known, pre-existing, heritable or genetic diseases only.
    (2) The donation of an embryo after Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis to an approved research laboratory for research purposes shall be done only--
        (a) with the approval of the commissioning couple or woman; and
        (b) when the embryo suffers from pre-existing, heritable, life-threatening or genetic diseases.
    (3) The National Board may lay down such other conditions as it deems fit in the interests of the Pre-implantation Genetic testing.
    Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, the expression--
        (i) "Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis" means the genetic diagnosis when one or both genetic parents has a known genetic abnormality and testing is performed on an embryo to determine if it also carries a genetic abnormality; and
        (ii) "Pre-implantation Genetic testing" means a technique used to identify genetic defects in embryos created through in-vitro fertilisation before pregnancy.
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