3. Regulation of Genetic Counselling Centres, Genetic Laboratories and Genetic Clinics.- On and
from the commencement of this Act,—
1. no Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory or Genetic Clinic unless registered under
this Act, shall conduct or associate with, or help in, conducting activities relating to prenatal diagnostic techniques;
2. no Genetic Counselling Centre or Genetic Laboratory or Genetic Clinic shall employ or cause to
be employed or take services of any person, whether on honorary basis or on payment who does
not possess qualifications as may be prescribed;
3. no medical geneticist, gynaecologist, paediatrician, registered medical practitioner or any other
person shall conduct or cause to be conducted or aid in conducting by himself or through any
other person, any pre-natal diagnostic techniques at a place other than a place registered
under this Act.
3A. Prohibition of sex-selection- No person, including a specialist or a team of specialists in the field of
infertility, shall conduct or cause to be conducted or aid in conducting by himself or by any other
person, sex selection on a woman or a man or on both or on any tissue, embryo, conceptus, fluid or
gametes derived from either or both of them.
3B. Prohibition on sale of ultrasound machines, etc., to persons, laboratories, clinics, etc. not registered under the Act.- No person shall sell any ultrasound machine or imaging machine or scanner
or any other equipment capable of detecting sex of foetus to any Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory, Genetic Clinic or any other person not registered under the Act.