s.32Restrictions on sending children abroad for adoption
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Section 32Part 5 — MISCELLANEOUS

Restrictions on sending children abroad for adoption

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It is not lawful for a person, in connection with any arrangements made for the adoption of a child who is a British subject or British Overseas Territory Citizen, to permit, or to cause or procure, the care and possession of the child to be transferred to a person who is not a citizen of a country prescribed in regulations made under subsection (5) or the guardian or a relative of the child and who is resident outside the Islands.
It is not lawful for a person, in connection with any such arrangements, to permit, or to cause or procure, the care and possession of such a child to be transferred to a person who is a citizen of a country prescribed for purposes of section 33(1) of this Law resident outside the Islands and who is not the guardian or relative of the child, unless a licence has been granted in respect of the child under section 33.
A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of thirty thousand dollars or imprisonment for one year, or to both.
In proceedings under this section, a report by a British consular officer or a deposition made before a British consular officer and authenticated under the signature of that officer is admissible in evidence, and it is not necessary to prove the signature or official status of the person who appears to have signed such report or deposition.
The Governor in Cabinet may make regulations prescribing countries to which children may be transferred for the purpose of section 33.

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