8(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—U.K.
(a)from the United Kingdom, and
(b)to a State of which he is not a national or citizen.
(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—
(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
(b)from which a person will not be sent to another State otherwise than in accordance with the Refugee Convention.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 8 in force at 1.10.2004 by S.I. 2004/2523, art. 2, Sch.