CAP. 141 Children (ii) [Rev. 2012] makes arrangement for the adoption of a child and receives or makes or gives any payment or other reward in connection with the making of the arrangements, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings, or to both. (2) Subsection (1) shall not apply— (a) to any payment the making or receipt of which is sanctioned by the court to which an application for an adoption order in respect of a child is made; or (b) to any payment made by or on behalf of an adoption society in respect of the maintenance of a child who has been placed at the disposition of the society; or (c) to any payment made to an adoption society by the parent or guardian of a child or by any other person in respect of the maintenance of the child, so long as the child is not in care and possession of a person who has adopted or proposes to adopt him, whether under an adoption order or some other order; or (d) to any payment made to an advocate who acts for any party in or in connection with an application for an adoption order, being payments made in respect of such application; or (e) to any voluntary contribution made by any adopter or any parent or guardian to an adoption society; or (f) to any fee prescribed by the Minister to be payable to an adoption society in the conduct of any functions under this Act. 180. Restriction on advertisement (1) It shall not be lawful for any advertisement to be published indicating— (a) that the parent or guardian of a child desires to cause the child to be adopted; or (b) that a person desires to adopt a child; or (c) that any person (not being an adoption society) is willing to make arrangements for the adoption of a child. (2) Any person who causes to be published or knowingly publishes an advertisement in contravention of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand shillings. 181. Offences under this Part Where any offence under any regulations made under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, member of a committee, secretary or other officer of the body, he as well as the body corporate, shall be deemed to have committed that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. [Issue 1] C15 - 86