CAP. 177]
[a. 9 cont.]
Identity cards.
Disciplinary powers of Registration Commissioner.
Offences.
Registration of Persons.
(b) search the person and property and effects of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest: Provided that a female shall be searched by a female, and that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to being so searched;
(c) search any place in which such officer has reason to suspect that there may be anything which may be evidence of any contravention or intended contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any rules made hereunder or which may belong to or be in the possession of or under the sole or partial control of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest and take and carry away any such thing.
10. (1) The Registration Commissioner shall issue identity cards to all persons whose names and particulars have been entered in the register.
(2) Each identity card shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Registration Commissioner to call for and to cancel the identity card of any person whose name he deletes from the register in accordance with section 6.
11. It shall be lawful for the Registration Commissioner to dismiss without notice and without formal inquiry any registrar, assistant registrar or subordinate member of the department of the Registration Commissioner who he is satisfied has been guilty of misconduct or has been negligent or inefficient in the performance of his duty.
12. Any person who-
(a) fails to apply to be registered under section 4 or 5, or who obstructs any order made under section 4; or
(b) fails to comply with a requirement for the taking of fingerprint impressions or of photographs made under section 7, or who obstructs any such requirement; or
(c) fails to comply with a summons or a requirement of a registration officer made under section 8; or
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