Part 2: Asylum Chapter 5: Priority removal notices Section 22: Late compliance with priority removal notice: damage to credibility
Overview: This section creates a principle that material that is not provided in compliance with the priority removal notice (PRN) should be damaging to a claimant’s credibility.
	Background: This is a new provision which sets out the consequences of failing to comply with a priority removal notice.
	Subsections 1, 2 and 3 set out that this section applies where a claimant has provided late material in response to a priority removal notice and either their claim is being considered or a competent authority is making a reasonable grounds or conclusive grounds decision concerning the claimant’s status as a victim of slavery or human trafficking.
	Subsection 4 specifies that a deciding authority must take into account material being brought late as damaging to a claimant’s credibility unless there are good reasons why it was brought late.
	Subsections 5 and 6 place a duty on the responsible bodies for establishing procedural rules for the Tribunal and the Special Immigration Appeals Commission to provide rules that, as part of the reasons for a decision on asylum and human rights claims, explicitly address how they have taken account of late material provided by the claimant.
	Subsection 7 defines material as having been brought late if it is provided on or after the PRN cut-off date.
	Subsection 8 defines a deciding authority as the Secretary of State, an Immigration Officer, the First-tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal in circumstances set out in subsection 9, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission or competent authority.
	Subsection 9 sets out the circumstances when the Upper Tribunal is acting as a deciding authority. This includes where it is acting under section 12(2) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 or in relation to an expedited appeal under section 82A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 or in relation to an expedited related appeal under section 24 where it involves a protection or human rights claim.
	Subsection 10 provides a definition of terms used in this section.
	Subsection 11 makes reference to section 26, which makes further provision relating to PRN recipients providing evidence late.