New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The Supreme Court has ruled that the age restriction under the Surrogacy Regulation Act of 2021 will not apply to couples who had frozen their embryos before the Act came into effect on January 25, 2022, according to a report by LiveLaw.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice KV Viswanathan stated that the right to surrogacy for these couples was established when they froze their embryos under the laws in effect at the time, which did not include an age limit. They emphasised that this right is part of reproductive autonomy and parenthood, and therefore, the age restriction under the Surrogacy Act cannot be applied retrospectively to these couples, according to the report.

The court clarified that it has not d...