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Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Advisory Committee, 1996 - Definitions

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Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques
(Regulation and Prevention of Misuse)
(Advisory Committee) Rules, 1996
 
G.S.R. 540 (E), dated 26th November, 1996- In exercise of the powers conferred by Sec.32 of the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:-

 Short title and commencement.-

(1) These rules may be called the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) (Advisory Committees) Rules, 1996.

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

1. Definitions.- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:-

 (a)  “Act” means the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994);

(b) “Advisory Committee” means an Advisory Committee constituted under sub-section (5) of Section 17 of the Act;

(c) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Advisory Committee appointed under sub-section (5) of Section 17;

(d)  “Principle rules” means the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Rules, 1996;

(e)  “section” means a section of the Act;

(f)   “words and expressions” used herein and not defined in these rules but defined in the Act or in the principal rules, as the case may be, shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the Act or in the principle rules.

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