GOVERNMENT OF MIZORAM
HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT
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N O T I F I C A T I O N
Dated Aizawl, the 4th Dec., 2015.
No.Z.11011/8/2015-HFW:In exercise of the powers conferred under section 17 of the Pre-conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, the Governor of Mizoram is pleased to reconstitute ‘Appropriate Authority’ consisting of the following members with immediate effect and until further order.
APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY
1.Director, Hospital & Medical Education, Govt. of Mizoram-Chairman
2.Secretary, MHIP, Mizoram-Member
3.Deputy Secretary, Law & Judicial Department-Member
Appropriate Authority shall have the following functions :
a)To grant, suspend or cancel registration of a Genetic CounsellingCentre, Genetic Laboratory & Genetic Clinics.
b)To enforce standards prescribed for the Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory & Genetic Clinics.
c)To investigate complaints of breach of the provision of this Act or the rules made there-under and take immediate action; and
d)To seek and consider the advice of the Advisory Committee, constituted under section (5), or cancellation of registration/
e)To take appropriate legal action against the use of any selection technique by any person at any place, suo moto or brought to its notice and also to initiate independent investigations in such matters.
f)To create public awareness against the practice of sex selection or pre-natal determination of sex.
g)To supervise the implementation of the provisions of the Act and Rules;
h)To recommend to the Board and State Boards modification required in the rules in accordance with changes in technology or social conditions.
Sd/- LALHMINGTHANGA
Secretary to the Govt. of Mizoram,
Health & Family Welfare Department
