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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-2003/regulation-36",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/118",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with—\n(a) regulation 15 (notification to local authority);\n(b) regulation 18(2) (return of child to relevant local authority);\n(c) regulation 18(4) (return of child to relevant authority as ordered by the court); or\n(d) regulation 23 (return of child to relevant authority within period prescribed by court),\nwithout reasonable excuse 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/118/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:33:22.130288+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."
}