six months and/or a fine not exceeding £10,000. Advertising: section 123 Under section 123 certain advertisements or information about adoption that may only be published or distributed by or on behalf of an adoption agency. Offence An offence will have been committed where:  There is an advertisement indicating that-  the parent or guardian of the child wants the child to be adopted,  a person wants to adopt a child,  a person is willing to take any steps in paragraph 2(a)-(e), (g) and (i) and that person is not an adoption agency,  a person is willing to receive a child handed over to them with a view to the child being adopted by them or another person, and the person is not an adoption agency,  a person is willing to remove a child from the UK for the purposes of adoption.  Information is provided on how to do anything which would constitute an offence under certain provisions of the Act, the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 or the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.  Information about a particular child as a child available for adoption other than through an adoption agency. Penalty: section 124 Liable on summary conviction, a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months and/or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. Restriction on bringing children into the UK: section 83 Section 83 of the Act applies where a person is habitually resident in the British Islands and brings a child into the UK for the purposes of adoption or having adopted the child 234 outside the UK within the previous 12 months. This does not apply if the child has been, or is intended to be adopted under the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention). But regulation 59 of the Adoptions with a Fore