Surrogacy Amendment (Regulation) Rules 2024

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-21022024-252270 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 108] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024/PHALGUNA 2, 1945 1176 GI/2024 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (Department of Health Research) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 21st February, 2024 G.S.R. 119(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 (47 of 2021), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Surrogacy (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2024. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in Official Gazette. 2. In the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022, in Form 2, in paragraph 1, for sub-paragraph (d), the following shall be substituted namely:- "1(d)(i) couple undergoing surrogacy must have both gamete from the intending couple. However, in case when the District Medical Board certifies that either husband or wife constituting the intending couple suffers from medical condition necessitating use of donor gamete then surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed subject to the condition that the child to be born through surrogacy must have atleast one gamete from the intending couple; (ii) single woman (widow or divorcee) undergoing surrogacy must use self eggs and donor sperms to avail surrogacy procedure;". [F. No. U.11019/15/2022-HR (Part-II)] RICHA KHODA, Jt. Secy. Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 460 (E), dated the 21st June, 2022 and subsequently amended vide numbers G.S.R. 772 (E), dated the 10th October, 2022, G.S.R. 179 (E), dated the 14th March, 2023, G.S.R. 415 (E), dated the 8th June, 2023 and G.S.R. 494 (E), dated the 11th July, 2023. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.