Any person who was the father or mother or a guardian of a child but is not, by reason of an adoption of the child, to be treated in law as the father or mother or a guardian of the child who takes, leads, entices, or decoys the child away or detains the child, with intent to deprive the adoptive parent or adoptive parents of the child shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty of not more than 25 penalty units or to imprisonment for a term of not more than 6 months or both.
No. 7147 s. 46.
S. 118 amended by No. 69/1989 s. 7(1).