Section 3. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, inter alia, provides for the following, namely:

3. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, inter alia, provides for the following, namely:— (a) to constitute the Surrogacy Boards at National and State level; (b) to allow ethical altruistic surrogacy to the intending infertile Indian married couple between the age of 23-50 years and 26-55 years for female and male respectively; (c) the intending couples should be legally married for at least five years and should be Indian citizens to undertake surrogacy or surrogacy procedures; (d) to provide that the intending couples shall not abandon the child, born out of a surrogacy procedure, under any condition and the child born out of surrogacy procedure shall have the same rights and privileges as are available to the biological child; (e) the surrogate mother should be a close relative of the intending couple and should be an ever married woman having a child of her own and between the age of 25-35 years; (f) to provide that the surrogate mother shall be allowed to act as surrogate mother only once; (g) to constitute the Surrogacy Board at National level which shall exercise and perform functions conferred on it under the Act. It is also proposed to constitute Surrogacy Boards at the State and Union territory level to perform similar functions in respective States and Union territories; (h) to appoint one or more appropriate authorities at State and Union territory level which shall be the executive bodies for implementing the provisions of the Act; (i) to provide that the surrogacy clinics shall be registered only after the appropriate authority is satisfied that such clinics are in a position to provide facilities and can maintain equipments and standards including specialised manpower, physical infrastructure and diagnostic facilities as may be provided in the rules and regulations; (j) to provide that no person, organisation, surrogacy clinic, laboratory or clinical establishment of any kind shall undertake commercial surrogacy, issue advertisements regarding commercial surrogacy, abandon the child born through surrogacy, exploit the surrogate mother, sell human embryo or import human embryo for the purpose of surrogacy and contravention of the said provisions shall be an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years and with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees. (viii) no surrogacy clinic, registered medical practitioner, gynaecologist, paediatrician, embryologist, intending couple or any other person shall in any form conduct or cause to be conducted sex selection for surrogacy.