law: Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994
  17.Appropriate Authority and Advisory
  
  Committee
  (1) The Central Government shall appoint, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, one or more Appropriate Authorities for
  
  each of the Union territories for the purposes of this Act.
  (2) The State Government shall appoint, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, one or more Appropriate Authorities for
  
  the whole or part of the State for the purposes of this Act having regard to
  
  the intensity of the problem of pre-natal sex determination leading to female foeticide.
  (3) The officers appointed as Appropriate
  
  Authorities under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be,-
  (a) when appointed for
  
  the whole of the State or the Union territory, of or above the rank of the
  
  Joint Director of  Health and Family Welfare; and
  (b) when appointed for
  
  any part of the State or the Union territory, of such other rank as the State
  
  Government or the Central Government, as the case may be, may deem fit.
  (4) The Appropriate Authority shall have the
  
  following functions, namely:-
  (a) to grant, suspend
  
  or cancel registration of a Genetic Counseling Centre, Genetic Laboratory or
  
  Genetic Clinic;
  (b) to enforce
  
  standards prescribed for the Genetic Counseling Centre, Genetic Laboratory and
  
  Genetic Clinic;
  (c) to investigate
  
  complaints of breach of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder
  
  and take immediate action; and
  (d) to seek and
  
  consider the advice of the Advisory Committee, constituted under sub-section
  
  (5), on application for registration and on complaints for suspension or
  
  cancellation of registration.
  (5) The Central Government or the State
  
  Government, as the case may be, shall constitute an Advisory Committee for each
  
  Appropriate Authority to aid and advise the Appropriate Authority in the discharge
  
  of its functions, and shall appoint one of the members of the Advisory
  
  Committee to be its Chairman.
  (6) The Advisory Committee shall consist of-
  (a) three medical
  
  experts from amongst gynecologists, obstetricians, pediatricians and medical geneticists;
  (b) one legal expert;
  (c) one officer to
  
  represent the department dealing with information and publicity of the State
  
  Government or the Union territory, as the case may be;
  (d) three eminent
  
  social workers of whom not less than one shall be from amongst representatives
  
  of women's organizations.
  (7) No person who, in the opinion of the
  
  Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, has been
  
  associated with the use or promotion of pre-natal diagnostic technique for
  
  determination of sex shall be appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee.
  (8) The Advisory Committee may meet as and
  
  when it thinks fit or on the request of the Appropriate Authority for
  
  consideration of any application for registration or any complaint for
  
  suspension or cancellation of registration and to give advice thereon:
  Provided that the period intervening between any
  
  two meetings shall not exceed the prescribed period.
  (9) The terms and conditions subject to which
  
  a person may be appointed to the Advisory Committee and the procedure to be
  
  followed by such Committee in the discharge of its functions shall be such as
  
  may be prescribed.