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Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

Section 58: Offence

Section 58 enables regulations to provide that an appropriate voluntary organisation which discloses information in contravention of section 56 is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

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