6. Section 14 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:"
| 14. Any adopter who, except with the sanction of the court, receives, from any person or makes or gives or agrees to make or give, to any person, any payment or reward in consideration of the adoption of any child, under this Part and any person who, except with the sanction of the court, receives, from any adopter or makes or gives or agrees to make or give, to any adopter, any such payment or reward shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts