{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/392",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with—\n(a) regulation 24 (requirements in respect of prospective adopter following child’s entry into the United Kingdom);\n(b) regulation 26(1) (return of child to relevant local authority where prospective adopter does not wish to proceed);\n(c) regulation 27(1)(b) (return of child to relevant local authority on request of local authority or by order of court); or\n(d) regulation 33 (refusal of a court in England or Wales to make a Convention adoption order).\nis 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 59(a)-(d) substituted for reg. 59(a)-(c) (30.12.2005) by The Adoption and Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3482), regs. 1, 6(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 59 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/392/regulation/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:09:27.521157+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}