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 15: Eligibility of member for reappointment.
    Subject to the other terms and conditions of service as may be prescribed, any person ceasing to be a member shall be eligible for reappointment as such member:
     1 [Provided that no member other than an ex officio member shall be appointed for more than two consecutive terms.]
Notes:
1 Ins. by s. 12, ibid. (w.e.f. 3-9-2001).
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