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Suspension or revocation of recognition of Specialised Adoption Agency . - (1) The State Government may, suo-motu or on the recommendation of State Adoption Resource Agency or Central Adoption Resource Authority either, suspend or revoke the recognition granted to a specialised adoption agency. (2) The recognition of a specialised adoption agency may be suspended on any one or more of the following grounds, namely. - (a) violation of any of the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder, relating to adoption as well as of these guidelines; 78 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(ii)] (b) furnishing false information or forged documents to State Adoption Resource Agency or the concerned State Government or Central Adoption Resource Authority; (c) incomplete or false information to prospective adoptive parents about the child or any adoption related process; (d) failure to update data online in the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System or furnishing or posting of false information therein; (e) failure to submit timely reports or data as stipulated in these guidelines; (f) adverse findings of the inspection team of the concerned State Government or State Adoption Resource Agency or of Central Government or Central Adoption Resource Authority, regarding the functioning of the specialised adoption agency ; (g) if professional social worker and qualified child care staff are not employed; (h) financial irregularities or malpractices or receiving any donation whether in kind or cash from prospective adoptive parents or adoptive parents; (i) misuse or diversion of child care corpus or grant received from the Government for the purposes other than the purpose(s) for which they were received; (j) unethical practices which would also include inducing single mothers or biological parents to relinquish their child or illegally sourcing the child; (k) divulging information on biological mother or parents or adopted child to public in violation of principle of confidentiality; (l) non-compliance of instructions issued from time to time by Central Adoption Resource Authority, State Adoption Resource Agency or the concerned State Government; and (m) abuse or neglect of children in the specialised adoption agency . (3) No order for suspension or revocation of authorisation shall be passed without giving an opportunity to the agency to offer its explanation. (4) After suspension of recognition of a specialised adoption agency, the concerned State Government or the State Adoption Resource Agency shall conduct necessary enquiries within a maximum period of six months, and if charges are proven, the State Government concerned shall revoke the recognition of the specialised adoption agency. (5) In case of revocation of recognition of a specialised adoption agency, the State Government concerned shall, within thirty days, prepare an alternate rehabilitation plan for the children in that home, including shifting them to another specialised adoption agency. (6) In the event of suspension or revocation of recognition of the specialised adoption agency, the cases where referrals have been accepted by the prospective adoptive parents, shall be allowed to proceed for final adoption provided that all other stipulations of these Guidelines have been met.