{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-16/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-16/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Care Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Modern Slavery Act 2015",
  "text": "In Schedule 4 to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (offences to which defence in section 45 does not apply), after paragraph 36A insert—\n“Health and Care Act 2022\n36B An offence under any of the following provisions of the Health and Care Act 2022—\n(a) section 136 (virginity testing);\n(b) section 137 (offering to carry out virginity testing);\n(c) section 138 (aiding or abetting etc a person to carry out virginity testing);\n(d) section 148 (carrying out hymenoplasty);\n(e) section 149 (offering to carry out hymenoplasty);\n(f) section 150 (aiding or abetting etc a person to carry out hymenoplasty).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 9 in force at 1.7.2022 by S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/schedule/16/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:41.503468+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}