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The next section of the Report deals with the recommendations of the Working Party, under 7 headings:-
(i)
(ii)
Recommendations designed to improve the Reliability of the Registration System
These are principally concerned with amendments to the Registration of Persons Ordinance and Regulations to fill in certain loopholes in this legislation including the standardisation of the names which residents use with different government departments and on official documents, to make it only possible for a resident to change his name by Deed Foll - by a simple and inexpensive procedure, to provide for more particulars, some of which are already given voluntarily, to be registerable by law, to increase the penalties for breaches of Registration of Persons legislation, to provide for the making of a false report and the manufacture or possession of a false identity card an offence, the limitation on prosecutions to be
It is also recommended extended from two to five years. that government departments should be required to assist the Registrar of Fersons in keeping his records up to date and that new or replacement identity cards should be mailed to the person concerned. Finally it is recommended that a new more secure and more conveniently sized card should be introduced.
Recommendations on the Introduction of Identity Cards of Limited Validity
In order to ensure that the photograph on an identity card bears an identifiable likeness to the holders and to help keep records up to date, it is recommended that the new identity card should only be valid for 10 years.
(iii) Recommendations on Re-registration
(iv)
The report concludes that a complete re-registration of the registerable population is necessary in order to
This could either be introduce a new identity card. done over five years or, if this is not acceptable, through a slower process of requiring all existing identity card holders who need such things as travel documents to acquire a new card.
Recommendations to Facilitate Access to Registration of Persons Records
More staff are needed to speed up the provision of information to departments and more efficient ways
A minor amendment to of doing this need to be devised.
the law concerning the disclosure of information to enable certain documents to be produced in court is also required.
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