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Any person who, knowingly and without lawful authority or reasonable excuse—
(a)fails to comply with a notice under section 87(3) of this Act;
(b)harbours or conceals a child—
(i)as respects whom a parental responsibilities order has been made; and
(ii)who has run away, or been taken away or whose return is required by such a notice; or
(c)induces, assists or incites a child as respects whom any such order has been made to run away, or stay away, from a place where he is looked after or who takes away such a child from that place,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
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