Miscellaneous Section 54: Refugee Convention: Construction
135.Section 54 provides an interpretation of Article 1F (c) in the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. It specifies that “acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations” which will result in exclusion from asylum include acts of committing, preparing or instigating terrorism and acts of encouraging or inducing others to commit, prepare or instigate terrorism .