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7.—(1) The Department may at any time serve a notice on any registered adoption society, or on any officer of such a society, requiring that society or officer to produce to the Department or a specified officer of the Department such books, accounts and other documents of the society relating to the performance by the society of its function in connection with the adoption of children as the Department may consider necessary for its information.
(2) Any such notice may contain a requirement that any information to be furnished in accordance with the notice shall be verified in a manner specified in the notice.
(3) Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of a notice under this Article shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.
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