Section 2 is a section of The Surrogacy Regulation Act – Section 2 SR. Section 2 of The Surrogacy Regulation Act was enacted in year 2021. Section 2 of The Surrogacy Regulation Act title is: Definitions. The Surrogacy Regulation Act SR is a central act.
Section 2 of The Surrogacy Regulation Act content is:
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,u2014
(a) u201cabandoned childu201d 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) u201caltruistic surrogacyu201d means the surrogacy in which no charges, expenses, fees,
remuneration or monetary incentive of whatever nature, except the medical expenses and such
other prescribed expenses incurred on surrogate mother and the insurance coverage for the
surrogate mother, are given to the surrogate mother or her dependents or her representative;
(c) u201cappropriate authorityu201d means the appropriate authority appointed under Section 35;
(d) u201cAssisted Reproductive Technology Actu201d means the Assisted Reproductive Technology
(Regulation) Act, 2021;
(e) u201cBoardu201d means the National Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board
constituted under Section 17;
(f) u201cclinical establishmentu201d shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Clinical
Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 (23 of 2010);
(g) u201ccommercial surrogacyu201d means commercialisation of surrogacy services or procedures or its
component services or component procedures including selling or buying of human embryo or
trading in the sale or purchase of human embryo or gametes or selling or buying or trading the
services of surrogate motherhood by way of giving payment, reward, benefit, fees, remuneration or
monetary incentive in cash or kind, to the surrogate mother or her dependents or her representative, except the medical expenses and such other prescribed expenses incurred on the surrogate mother
and the insurance coverage for the surrogate mother;
(h) u201ccoupleu201d means the legally married Indian man and woman above the age of 21 years and
18 years respectively;
(i) u201ceggu201d includes the female gamete;
(j) u201cembryou201d means a developing or developed organism after fertilisation till the end of fiftysix days;
(k) u201cembryologistu201d means a person who possesses any post-graduate medical qualification or
doctoral degree in the field of embryology or clinical embryology from a recognised university
with not less than two years of clinical experience;
(l) u201cfertilisationu201d means the penetration of the ovum by the spermatozoan and fusion of genetic
materials resulting in the development of a zygote;
(m) u201cfoetusu201d means a human organism during the period of its development beginning on the
fifty-seventh day following fertilisation or creation (excluding any time in which its development
has been suspended) and ending at the birth;
(n) u201cgameteu201d means sperm and oocyte;
(o) u201cgynaecologistu201d shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Pre-conception and
Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994);
(p) u201cimplantationu201d means the attachment and subsequent penetration by the zona-free
blastocyst, which starts five to seven days following fertilisation;
(q) u201cinsuranceu201d means an arrangement by which a company, individual or intending couple
undertake to provide a guarantee of compensation for medical expenses, health issues, specified
loss, damage, illness or death of surrogate mother and such other prescribed expenses incurred on
such surrogate mother during the process of surrogacy;
(r) u201cintending coupleu201d means a couple who have a medical indication necessitating gestational
surrogacy and who intend to become parents through surrogacy;
(s) u201cintending womanu201d means an Indian woman who is a widow or divorcee between the age of
35 to 45 years and who intends to avail the surrogacy;
(t) u201cMemberu201d means a Member of the National Assisted Reproductive Technology and
Surrogacy Board or a State Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board, as the case
may be;
(u) u201cnotificationu201d means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(v) u201coocyteu201d means naturally ovulating oocyte in the female genetic tract;
(w) u201cPaediatricianu201d means a person who possesses a post-graduate qualification in paediatrics
as recognised under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956);
(x) u201cprescribedu201d means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(y) u201cregistered medical practitioneru201d means a medical practitioner who possesses any
recognised medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of Section 2 of the Indian Medical
Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) and whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register;
(z) u201cregulationu201d means regulations made by the Board under this Act;
(za) u201csex selectionu201d shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (o) of Section 2 of
the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994
(57 of 1994);
(zb) u201cState Boardu201d means the State Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board
constituted under section 26;
(zc) u201cState Governmentu201d in relation to Union territory with Legislature, means the
Administrator of the Union territory appointed by the President under Article 239 of the
Constitution;
(zd) u201csurrogacyu201d means a practice whereby one woman bears and gives birth to a child for an
intending couple with the intention of handing over such child to the intending couple after the
birth;
(ze) u201csurrogacy clinicu201d means surrogacy clinic, centre or laboratory, conducting assisted
reproductive technology services, invitro fertilisation services, genetic counselling centre, genetic
laboratory, Assisted Reproductive Technology Banks conducting surrogacy procedure or any
clinical establishment, by whatsoever name called, conducting surrogacy procedures in any form;
(zf) u201csurrogacy proceduresu201d means all gynaecological, obstetrical or medical procedures,
techniques, tests, practices or services involving handling of human gametes and human embryo in
surrogacy;
(zg) u201csurrogate motheru201d means a woman who agrees to bear a child (who is genetically related
to the intending couple or intending woman) through surrogacy from the implantation of embryo
in her womb and fulfils the conditions as provided in sub-clause (b) of clause (iii) of Section 4;
(zh) u201czygoteu201d means the fertilised oocyte prior to the first cell division.
(2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined in this Act but defined in the Assisted
Reproductive Technology Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.
When was Section 2 of SR enacted?
Section 2 of SR was enacted in year 2021.
What is Section 2 of SR?
Section 2 of SR title is Definitions . Section 2 of SR contents are stated above.