Surrogacy (Regulation) Act

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THE SURROGACY (REGULATION) ACT, 2021 ACT NO. 47 OF 2021 [25th December, 2021.] An Act to constitute National Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board, State Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Boards and appointment of appropriate authorities for regulation of the practice and process of surrogacy 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 Surrogacy (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. 292(E), dated 20th January, 2022, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (ii). (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “abandoned child” means a child born out of surrogacy procedure who has been deserted by his intending parents or guardians and declared as abandoned by the appropriate authority after due enquiry; (b) “altruistic surrogacy” means the surrogacy in which no charges, expenses, fees, remuneration or monetary incentive of w