PART 3ADOPTIONS UNDER THE CONVENTION

CHAPTER 3MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Offences59

Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with—

a

regulation 26 (requirement to notify relevant local authority);

b

regulation 27 (withdrawal of child by local authority); and

c

regulation 33 (refusal of court to make Convention adoption order)

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.