ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 120 Restrictions on advertising
ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 120
Restrictions on advertisingS. 120(1) amended by No. 69/1989 s. 7(6).
(1) Subject to this section, any person who publishes, or causes to be published, in a newspaper or periodical, or by means of broadcasting, television or public exhibition, any advertisement, news item, or other matter indicating (whether or not in relation to a particular child, born or unborn) that—
(a) a parent or guardian of a child wishes to have the child adopted;
(b) a person wishes to adopt a child; or
(c) a person is willing to make arrangements with a view to the adoption of a child—
shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
S. 120(1)(d) inserted by No. 69/1989 s. 7(6).
(d) in the case of a body corporate,
to a penalty of not more than 1000 penalty units; or
S. 120(1)(e) inserted by No. 69/1989 s. 7(6).
(e) in any other case, to a penalty of not more than 100 penalty units or to imprisonment for not more than 2 years or both.
S. 120(2) amended by Nos 69/1989
s. 9, 46/1998
s. 7(Sch. 1).
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to an advertisement or other matter that has been approved by the Secretary or by the principal officer of an approved agency, whether or not any person referred to in subsection (1) may be identified.
S. 121 substituted by No. 69/1989 s. 10.