1989 Ed.]
Registration of Persons Regulations
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[Subsidiary]
the Ordinance to apply for an identity card shall apply in person to a registration officer at one of the new identity card issue offices specified in Schedule 3 for such identity card.
(2) Without prejudice to subregulation (1) the Commissioner may, in such special circumstances as he may determine, make arrangements for applications for identity cards to be received, and for such identity cards to be collected, at mobile or temporary offices as he may specify.
(3) Any person who is issued by a registration officer with a document acknowledging that that person has applied for an identity card under subregulation (1) shall be deemed to have complied with that subregulation.
(4) If a registration officer is satisfied, on an application under sub-regulation (1) by any person, that that person enjoys the right of abode in Hong Kong the registration officer shall, in accordance with these regulations, issue to the applicant a permanent identity card.
3C. Perforated identity cards
(L.N. 178 of 1987)
(1) At the time of applying for an identity card under regulation 3A or 3B the applicant shall present his existing identity card (if any) for it to be converted into a perforated identity card.
(2) The registration officer may perforate, with an expiry date, an existing identity card presented under subregulation (1).
(3) A perforated identity card shall expire on the date shown by the perforation made under subregulation (2) and shall thereupon cease to be valid.
(4) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any perforated identity card which has ceased to be valid under subregulation (3) and surrendered to him by any person under any of these regulations.
3D. Holder of permanent identity card not enjoying
right of abode in Hong Kong
(L.N. 178 of 1987)
(1) Where a registration officer is satisfied that a person to whom a permanent identity card has been issued no longer has, or never had, the right of abode in Hong Kong, he may by such means as he may determine declare the card to be invalid, order it to be surrendered to a registration officer and order the person to whom the card was issued, unless he is an exempt person or an excluded person or lives outside Hong Kong, to apply for an identity card other than a permanent identity card at such place, in such manner, and within such period, as he may require.
(2) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any permanent identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1).
(L.N. 178 of 1987)
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