{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-34.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with–\n(a) regulation 13 (duty of prospective adopter to notify HSS trust);\n(b) regulation 16(2) (surrender of child to HSS trust);\n(c) regulation 16(4) (surrender of child to HSS trust as ordered by the court); or\n(d) regulation 21(3) (surrender of child to HSS trust within period determined by the court),\nwithout reasonable excuse, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 34 in operation at 1.6.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/16",
      "affecting_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/16/regulation/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:14.848133+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."
}