A person who is not within a prescribed description may not, in any prescribed circumstances, prepare a report for any person about the suitability of a child for adoption or of a person to adopt a child or about the adoption, or placement for adoption, of a child.
If a person—
contravenes subsection (1), or
causes a person to prepare a report, or submits to any person a report which has been prepared, in contravention of that subsection,
he is guilty of an offence.
If a person who works for an adoption society—
contravenes subsection (1), or
causes a person to prepare a report, or submits to any person a report which has been prepared, in contravention of that subsection,
the person who manages the society is also guilty of the offence.
A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.