While using human gametes and embryos, the duties to be performed by the clinics and banks shall be as under:--
(a) the clinics shall retrieve oocytes in such manner as may be specified by regulations;
(b) not more than three oocytes or embryos may be placed in the uterus of a woman during the treatment cycle in such manner as may be specified by regulations;
(c) a woman shall not be treated with gametes or embryos derived from more than one man or woman during any one treatment cycle;
(d) a clinic shall never mix semen from two individuals for the procedures specified under this Act;
(e) the embryos shall not be split and used for twinning to increase the number of available embryos;
(f) the collection of gametes posthumously shall be done only if prior consent of the commissioning couple is available in such manner as may be prescribed;
(g) the clinic shall not use ovum that are derived from a foetus, in any process of in-vitro fertilisation; and
(h) such other duties as may be prescribed.
Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, the expression--
(i) "fertilisation" means the penetration of the ovum by the spermatozoon and fusion of genetic materials resulting in the development of a zygote; and
(ii) "foetus" means a human organism during the period of its development beginning on the fifty-seventh day following fertilisation and ending at birth or abortion.