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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 impri-sonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.”.

4 7. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 27 and shall have effect as section 27a of the principal enactment :—

Prohibition against unlawful custody.