Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Procedure in case of offence under section 80 of the Act.-(1) Where any orphan, abandoned or surrendered child, is offered or given or received for the purpose of adoption without following the procedures as provided in the Act and the rules, the police shall, suomotu, or on receipt of information in that regard register an FIR forthwith. (2) A child who has been so offered, given or received for the purpose of adoption shall be produced before the Committee forthwith which shall pass appropriate directions for rehabilitation of the child, including placing such child in a Specialised Adoption Agency. (3) Wherever any offence under section 80 of the Act is committed by a recognised Specialised Adoption Agency or by a person associated with such an agency, the Committee may also pass appropriate orders for placing the other children placed with the Specialised Adoption Agency in any other Child Care Institution or Specialised Adoption Agency.