72 Serious criminal
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72  Serious criminal

(1)     This section applies for the purpose of the construction and application of Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention (exclusion from [prohibition of expulsion or return]).

(2)     A person [is] convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime . . . if he is—

(a)     convicted in the United Kingdom of an offence, and

(b)     sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least [12 months].

(3)     A person [is] convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime . . . if—

(a)     he is convicted outside the United Kingdom of an offence,

(b)     he is sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least [12 months], and

(c)     he could have been sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least [12 months] had his conviction been a conviction in the United Kingdom of a similar offence.

(4)     A person [is] convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime . . . if—

(a)     he is convicted of an offence specified

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