Act Number: 57

Act Name: The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994

Year: 1994

Enactment Date: 1994-09-20

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department: Department of Health and Family Welfare

Section 14: Disqualifications for appointment as member.
    A person shall be disqualified for being appointed as a member if, he--
         (a) has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which, in the opinion of the Central Government, involves moral turpitude; or
         (b) is an undischarged insolvent; or
         (c) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or
         (d) has been removed or dismissed from the service of the Government or a Corporation owned or controlled by the Government; or
         (e) has, in the opinion of the Central Government, such financial or other interest in the Board as is likely to affect prejudicially the discharge by him of his functions as a member; or
         1 [(f) has, in the opinion of the Central Government, been associated with the use or promotion of pre-natal diagnostic technique for determination of sex or with any sex selection technique.]
Notes:
1 Subs. by Act 14 of 2003, s. 11, for clause (f) (w.e.f. 14-2-2003).
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