Draft Conversion Practices Bill

The draft Conversion Practices Bill contains 3 proposed offences to ban criminal conversion practices.

Conversion practices draft bill

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The draft bill has been shared with Parliament to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny.

A conversion practice is an act that is carried out with the intention of changing a person's sexual orientation or transgender identity.

The draft bill sets out measures which:

• prohibit the carrying out of criminal conversion practices on individuals
• creates an offence of encouraging or assisting conversion practices against a UK national/resident abroad
• makes provision for conversion practice protection orders  civil orders which can be used to pre-emptively protect individuals from these practices