The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on July 11, 2023, notified the Surrogacy (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2023 further to amend the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022.
The amendment is as follows: -
•In the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022, sub-section (b) of Para 2 in Part 1 of Schedule 1 which talks about the requirement, and qualification for persons employed, at a registered surrogacy clinic the words the Andrologist shall be MCh/DNB in urology or MS General Surgery or FNB/MCh/DM in reproductive medicine with minimum 2 years experience and having hands-on experience of minimum 15 surgical sperm retrieval (namely PESA / TESA / TESE / MESA / MICROTESE procedures) have been added.
These rules shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
[Notification No. G.S.R. 494(E)]
