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

गर्भधारण पूर्व और प्रसवपूर्व निदान-तकनीक(लिंग चयन प्रतिषेध) अधिनियम, 1994

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.

Act number

Act 57 of 1994

Year

1994

Enacted on

20-09-1994

In force from

01-01-1996

Jurisdiction

Central Act (India)

Subjects

Health And Medicine, Women And Children

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Official source: India Code