Part 5: Virginity Testing and Hymenoplasty Offences Hymenoplasty Offences: England and Wales Section 149: Offence of offering to carry out hymenoplasty: England and Wales.
Section 149(1) makes it an offence:
(a) for a person in England and Wales to offer to carry out hymenoplasty in the UK, or to make an offer to carry out hymenoplasty which has a "sufficient jurisdictional connection", or
(b) for a UK national or habitual resident of England and Wales to make an offer to carry out hymenoplasty anywhere.
	Offering is included as a separate offence, so that people who are offering the service can be prevented from going ahead with the procedure and potential victims can be protected. It will also give effect to the expert panel’s recommendation that the advertising of hymenoplasty be banned, because a person who arranges for an advertisement to be published offering their hymenoplasty services would be making an offer. Subsection (2) states that hymenoplasty has "sufficient jurisdictional connection" for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) if it is carried out on a (a) UK national, or (b) someone who is habitually resident in the UK.
	Subsection (3) gives the same meaning to "United Kingdom National" as section 148(4) and hymenoplasty has the meaning given by section148(2).