ABSTRACT
An act to provide for the regulation of use of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for purpose of detecting genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or certain congenital malformations or sex linked disorders and for the prevention of the misuse of such techniques for the purpose of pre-natal sex determination leading to female foeticide; and, for matters connected there with or incidental thereto. The pre-natal diagnostic techniques act is enacted by Parliament in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India: Chapter-I preliminary, Chapter II regulation of genetic counselling centres, genetic laboratories and genetic clinics, Chapter III regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques, Chapter IV central supervisory board, Chapter V appropriate authority and advisory committee, Chapter VI registration of genetic counselling centres, genetic laboratories and genetic clinics, Chapter VII offences and penalties, and Chapter VIII miscellaneous.
