The bill creates two new criminal offences, where there is either a heightened risk of harm, as is the case of conversion practices performed on people under the age of 18 or people with impaired decision-making capacity, or where it can be demonstrated that a person has suffered serious harm as a result of the conversion practice. These criminal offences are intended to capture particularly serious cases and to send a clear message that conversion practices are unacceptable and should not be appearing here in Aotearoa.