PART 5Virginity testing and hymenoplasty offences
CHAPTER 2Hymenoplasty offences
Hymenoplasty offences: Scotland
153Offence of offering to carry out hymenoplasty: Scotland
(1)
It is an offence under the law of Scotland—
(a)
for a person in Scotland 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 Scotland.
(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 152(4);
“hymenoplasty” has the meaning given by section 152(2).