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Credibility of claimantU.K.
62Credibility of claimant: concealment of information etcU.K.
(1)Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (claimant’s credibility) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (3)—
(a)in paragraphs (a) and (c) for “a passport” substitute “an identity document”;
(b)in paragraph (b) for “passport” substitute “identity document”;
(c)after paragraph (d) (but before the “and”) insert—
“(da)failure to provide to an immigration officer or the Secretary of State, on request, any information or anything else required in order to access any information stored in electronic form on a thing in the possession of an immigration officer or the Secretary of State that—
(i)was found on the claimant, or
(ii)appears to an immigration officer or the Secretary of State to have been in the possession of the claimant,”.
(3)In subsection (7)—
(a)insert at the appropriate place—
(b)omit the definition of “passport”.
(4)In subsection (8) for “A passport” substitute “An identity document”.
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