Prohibition of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for certain purposes

On and from the date of commencement of this Act—

1. (1) No Genetic Counselling Centre, laboratory, clinic, gynaecologist, medical practitioner or any other person shall use or allow to be used the pre-natal diagnostic techniques including ultra-sonography for the purpose of indicating the sex of a foetus with or without the possible object of female foeticide.
2. (2) No centre, laboratory or clinic shall give advertisement in any manner regarding facilities of pre-natal prediction of sex available at the centre, laboratory, or clinic.
3. (3) No person or members of family of a pregnant female shall seek to get the pre-natal diagnostic procedure done for a purpose other than those mentioned in sub-section
4. (3) of section 4.