Originally it was PNDT Act 1994, but amended in 2003 as PC & PNDT Act to cover the loop holes and make the law more stringent.
PC & PNDT Act seeks to curb sex determination and sex selection. It was dismal child sex ratio of 1991 Census which led Parliament to legislate a comprehensive Policy. However due to lackadaisical implementation and emergence of more sophisticated diagnosis the law had to be revised which led to its amendment in 2003.
Salient features of Act:-
1-prohibiits determination and disclosure of sex of foetus
2-bans advertisement for the same
3-all the technologies of sex determination come under the ambit of this act
4-signboard to be placed on ultra somography machines that the sex determination test is banned
5-all ultrasonography machines and practitioners to be registered.
6-punishment for offence---3 yrs imprisonment and 50,000 fine.
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