Commentary on provisions of the Act Section 62: Credibility of claimant: concealment of information etc
This section amends section 8 of the 2004 Act by adding to the behaviours which should be considered damaging to the credibility of a person who has made an asylum or human rights claim. Section 8 of the 2004 Act provides that a decision maker should consider damaging to a claimant’s credibility behaviours listed in that section.
	Subsections (2)(a) and (2)(b) amend subsection (3) of section 8 of the 2004 Act by replacing references to "passport" with "identity document". This makes it clear that credibility should be damaged where a claimant fails to produce, destroys, alters or disposes of any identity document without reasonable explanation, or where a claimant produces a document which is not a valid identity document as if it were.
	Subsection (2)(c) inserts new paragraph (da) into subsection (3) of section 8 of the 2004 Act. This provides that credibility should be damaged where a claimant refuses to disclose information, such as a passcode, that would enable access to any information stored in electronic form, such as on a mobile phone or other electronic device.
	Subsection (3) amends section 8 of the 2004 Act definitions for "document" and "identity document". It also removes the definition of "passport".
	Subsection (4) replaces the reference to "passport" in section 8 of the 2004 Act with "identity document".