Section 24 Penalty for personating another, etc., for purpose of providing bodily sample.F1
England and Wales
If for the purpose of providing a bodily sample for a test required to give effect to a direction under section 20 of this Act any person personates another, or proffers a child knowing that it is not the child named in the direction, he shall be liable—
(a)
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or
(b)
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £400.
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Textual amendments
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Words in s. 24 substituted (1.4.2001) by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42, SIF 49:7), s. 33(1), Sch. 2 para. 25; S.I. 2001/777, art. 2