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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-treatment-of-claimants-etc-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/19",
  "legislation_title": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc. ) Act 2004",
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  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of the determination by any person, tribunal or court whether a person who has made an asylum claim may be removed—\n(a) from the United Kingdom, and\n(b) to a State of which he is not a national or citizen.\n(2) A State to which this Part applies shall be treated, in so far as relevant to the question mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), as a place—\n(a) where a person’s life and liberty are not threatened by reason of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, and\n(b) from which a person will not be sent to another State otherwise than in accordance with the Refugee Convention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 8 in force at 1.10.2004 by S.I. 2004/2523, art. 2, Sch."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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