Section 51 amends section 72 of the NIAA so as to define a sexual offence under Schedule 3 Sexual Offences Act (SOA) 2003 as a ‘particularly serious crime’ for the purposes of excluding refugees from the protection from refoulement, in line with Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention.
	Subsection (2) inserts new subsection 5ZA into section 72 of the NIAA2002. Subsection 5ZA presumes that an individual who receives a conviction for an offence listed in Schedule 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, has received a conviction for a particularly serious crime for the purposes of Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention. The new subsection (5ZA)(b) means that if an individual is convicted by a final judgment of a Schedule 3 offence but the offence already meets the provision set out in subsection (2) of section 72 of the NIAA 2002, then subsection (5ZA)(a) will not apply.
	Subsection (2) also inserts a new section (5ZB) into section 72 of the NIAA 2002. Subsection (5ZB) presumes that an individual who receives a conviction outside of the UK for an offence that would have constituted a Schedule 3 offence, had it been committed in the UK, is convicted of a particularly serious crime for the purposes of Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention. The new subsection (5ZB)(c) means that if an individual is convicted by a final judgment of an equivalent of a Schedule 3 offence outside of the UK, but the offence already meets the provision set out in subsection (3) of section 72 of the NIAA 2002, then subsection (5ZB)(a) and (b) will not apply.
	Subsection (3) inserts a new subsection (5B) into section 72 of the NIAA 2002. This creates a presumption that any individual who has been convicted of a particularly serious crime under (5ZA) or (5ZB) constitutes a danger to the community of the UK.
	Subsections (4), to (8) make consequential changes to section 72 of the NIAA 2002, to reflect the new provisions inserted by new subsections (5ZA) and (5ZB).
Part 2: Asylum and Immigration Refugee Convention Section 51: Refugee Convention: particularly serious crime