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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-34",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with–\n(a) regulation 13 (notification to local authority);\n(b) regulation 16(2) (surrender of child to local authority);\n(c) regulation 16(4) (surrender of child as ordered by the Court);\n(d) regulation 20(1) (refusal of Court to make a Convention adoption order);\n(e) regulation 20(2) (surrender of child after notification of withdrawal); or\n(f) regulation 20(3) (surrender of child after deemed withdrawal)\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/ssi/2003/19/regulation/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:33.483972+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."
}