Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act

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THE ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY (REGULATION) ACT, 2021 ACT NO. 42 OF 2021 [18th December, 2021.] An Act for the regulation and supervision of the assisted reproductive technology clinics and the assisted reproductive technology banks, prevention of misuse, safe and ethical practice of assisted reproductive technology services for addressing the issues of reproductive health where assisted reproductive technology is required for becoming a parent or for freezing gametes, embryos, embryonic tissues for further use due to infertility, disease or social or medical concerns and for regulation and supervision of research and development and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows: — (1) This Act may be called the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021. (2) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. Footnotes ^ 25th January, 2022, vide notification No. S.O. 291(E), dated 20th January, 2022, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). (1) In this Act, unless the context o