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ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT 1964 - SECT 50A

50A Undue influence

A person who uses or threatens to use any force or restraint or does or threatens to do any injury, or causes or threatens to cause any detriment of any kind to a parent or guardian of a child with a view--

(a) to inducing that parent or guardian to offer or refrain from offering the child for adoption under this Act; or
(b) to influencing the parent or guardian in the expression of any wishes contained in an instrument of consent to the adoption of a child; or
(c) to inducing the parent or guardian to revoke a consent to the adoption of the child given by that parent or guardian;

or to any person with a view to inducing that person to make an application under part 4A, commits an offence against this Act.



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