Adoption Act 2000

A person who uses or threatens to use any force or restraint or does or threatens to do any injury, or causes or threatens to cause any detriment of any kind to, or exerts any other undue influence on, a parent of, or person who has parental responsibility for, a child with a view—

to inducing that parent or person who has parental responsibility to offer or refrain from offering the child for adoption under this Act, or

to influencing the parent or person who has parental responsibility in the expression of any wishes contained in an instrument of consent to the adoption of a child, or

to inducing the parent or person who has parental responsibility to revoke a consent to the adoption of the child given by that parent or person who has parental responsibility,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—25 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

A person who uses or threatens to use any force or restraint or does or threatens to do any injury, or causes or threatens to cause any detriment of any kind to a child with a view—

to influencing the child in the expression of any wishes concerning his or her adoption, or

to inducing the child to consent to his or her adoption, or

to inducing the child to revoke consent to his or her adoption,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—25 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.