Regn.No. KERBIL/2012/45073 dated 05-09-2012 with RNI Reg No.KL/TV(N)/634/2021-2023 മകരള സർകാർ Government of Kerala 2023
മകരള ഗസറ്
KERALA GAZETTE
അസാധാരണം
EXTRAORDINARY
ആധികാരികാേയി ്പസിദറ്റപടുതുനത
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തിരുവനനപുരം,
2023 ഡിസംബർ 29 29th December 2023
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No. 4230 വാലം 12 Vol. XII
1199 ധനു 13 13th Dhanu 1199 Thiruvananthapuram, Friday
1945 ചപൗഷം 8 8th Pousha 1945
GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
Health & Family Welfare (FW) Department
NOTIFICATION
G. O. (P) No. 87/2023/H&FWD.
Dated, Thiruvananthapuram 13th December, 2023
27th Vrischikam, 1199.
S. R. O. No. 1400/2023
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 35 of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 (No. 47 of 2021) and sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 12 of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 (No. 42 of 2021), the Government of Kerala hereby make the following amendment to the notification issued under G. O. (P) No. 25/2022/H&FWD dated 20th June, 2022 and published as S.R.O. No. 629/2022 in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 2088 dated 24th June, 2022, namely:—
2AMENDMENT
In the said notification, for the entries against serial number (iv) the following entries shall be substituted, namely:—
"(iv) Smt. Smitha, C. S., Deputy Secretary, Law Department – Member, Ex-officio".
By Order of Governor,
A. P. M. MOHAMMED HANISH, Principal Secretary to Government.
Explanatory Note
(This does not form part of the notification, but is intended to indicate its general purport.) Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 35 of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act 2021, (No. 47 of 2021) and sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 12 of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021, (No. 42 of 2021) every State Government have to appoint an appropriate authority for the purpose of the said Acts. As such the Government of Kerala have appointed an appropriate authority in which Smt. V. Helena Thomas, Joint Secretary from Law department was appointed as Ex-officio member. Since she has been promoted as Additional Law Secretary in the Law Department and hence the Government have decided to replace her with Smt. Smitha, C. S., Deputy Secretary, Law Department as the Ex-officio member in the aforesaid appropriate authority for the purpose of the said Acts.
This notification is intended to achieve the above object.