Section 2. In the light of above, it had become necessary to enact a legislation to regulate surrogacy services

2. In the light of above, it had become necessary to enact a legislation to regulate surrogacy services in the country, to prohibit the potential exploitation of surrogate mothers and to protect the rights of children born through surrogacy. 2. Definitions. — (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "abandoned child" means a child born out of surrogacy procedure who has been deserted by his intending parents or guardians and declared as abandoned by the appropriate authority after due enquiry; (b) "altruistic surrogacy" means the surrogacy in which no charges, expenses, fees, remuneration or monetary incentive of whatever nature, except the medical expenses and such other prescribed expenses incurred on surrogate mother and the insurance coverage for the surrogate mother, are given to the surrogate mother or her dependents or her representative; (c) "appropriate authority" means the appropriate authority appointed under Section 35; (d) "Assisted Reproductive Technology Act" means the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021; (e) "Board" means the National Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board constituted under Section 17; (f) "clinical establishment" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 (23 of 2010); (g) "commercial surrogacy" means commercialisation of surrogacy services or procedures or its component services or component procedures including selling or buying of human embryo or trading in the sale or purchase of human embryo or gametes or selling or buying or trading the services of surrogate motherhood by way of giving payment, reward, benefit, fees, remuneration or monetary incentive in cash or kind, to the surrogate mother or her dependents or her representative, except the medical expenses and such other prescribed expenses incurred on the surrogate mother and the insurance coverage for the surrogate mother;