Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31)

PART 5 U.K. Virginity testing and hymenoplasty offences

CHAPTER 1 U.K. Virginity testing offences

Virginity testing offences: England and Wales E+W

137 Offence of offering to carry out virginity testing: England and Wales E+W

(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).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 137 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)

I2 S. 137 in force at 1.7.2022 by S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)