PART 5Virginity testing and hymenoplasty offences

CHAPTER 2Hymenoplasty offences

Hymenoplasty offences: England and Wales

149Offence of offering to carry out hymenoplasty: 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 hymenoplasty in the United Kingdom or hymenoplasty that has a sufficient jurisdictional connection, or

(b)

for a person anywhere to offer to carry out hymenoplasty if the person is a United Kingdom national or habitually resident in England and Wales.

(2)

Hymenoplasty 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 148(4);

hymenoplasty” has the meaning given by section 148(2).