PART 5Virginity testing and hymenoplasty offences
CHAPTER 1Virginity testing offences
Virginity testing offences: England and Wales
137Offence of offering to carry out virginity testing: England and Wales
(1)
It is an offence under the law of England and Wales—
(a)
for a person in England and Wales to offer to carry out virginity testing in the United Kingdom or virginity testing that has a sufficient jurisdictional connection, or
(b)
for a person anywhere to offer to carry out virginity testing if the person is a United Kingdom national or habitually resident in England and Wales.
(2)
Virginity testing has a sufficient jurisdictional connection for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) if it is carried out in relation to a person who is—
(a)
a United Kingdom national, or
(b)
habitually resident in the United Kingdom.
(3)
In this section—
“United Kingdom national” has the meaning given by section 136(4);
“virginity testing” has the meaning given by section 136(2).