Prohibition of Sex Selection

PC&PNDT – Amendment to the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules, 1996 – Notification No. GSR 418(E) dated 05-06-2012 issued by the Government of India – Republication in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette – Orders – Issued.

The following Notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Health and

Family Welfare, New Delhi, vide GSR No.418(E), dated the 5th June, 2012 is hereby republished:-

G.S.R. 418(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 32 of the

Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments to the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules 1996 namely :-

1. (1) These Rules may be called the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic

Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Amendment Rules, 2012.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official

Gazette

2. In the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex

Selection) Rules, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), after rule 3,

the following rule shall be inserted, before rule 3A, namely:-

(3) Each medical practitioner qualified under the Act to conduct

ultrasonography in a genetic clinic/ultrasound clinic/imaging centre shall be

permitted to be registered with a maximum of two such clinics/centres within

a district. The consulting hours for such medical practitioner, shall be clearly

specified by each clinic/centre”.

3. In the said rules, in rule 5 in sub-rule (1), the following sub-rule,-

(a) in item (a) for the letters and figure “Rs.3,000.00”, the words “rupees

twenty five thousand” shall be substituted.

(b) In item (b) for the letters and figure “Rs.4,000.00”, the words “rupees

thirty five thousand” shall be substituted.

4. In the said Rules, in Rule 13, for the words “within a period of thirty days of

such change”, the words “atleast thirty days in advance of the expected date

of such change, and seek re-issuance of certificate of registration from the

Appropriate Authority, with the changes duly incorporated” shall be

substituted.

Note: The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India vide G.S.R.

1(E), dated the 1st January, 1996 and subsequently amended, vide notification

numbers. G.S.R. 109(E), dated the 14th February, 2003; G.S.R. 426(E), dated the

31st May, 2011; G.S.R. 80(E), dated the 9th February, 2012.

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PUBLIC SERVICES – Finance Department – Sri K. Pitambaram, Assistant Accounts Officer – Promoted as Accounts Officer / Assistant Director – Fixation of pay in the category of Accounts Officer / Assistant Director – Orders - Issued.

Government hereby nominate Sri Y. Ramakrishna, additional Secretary to Government as member of the Finance Committee, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies.