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CAP. 177]
Registration of Persons Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(c) where the personal name and surname are in Chinese, bear their first 6 characters only. (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(ID) A registration officer may waive
(a) subject to regulation 3A(2), in the case of an applicant who the registration officer is satisfied lives outside Hong Kong, all or any of the requirements of subregulation (1);
(b) in the case of a person under 11 years of age applying for a permanent identity card, the requirement for the applicant to submit to the steps specified in subregulation (1)(a);
(c) the requirement for an applicant to furnish all or any of the particulars specified in subregulation (1)(b), if the registration officer considers that he already has in his possession sufficient details of those particulars. (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(2) If an applicant is unable to write, or if he so wishes, he shall dictate the particulars under subregulation (1)(b) to a registration officer or to any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner for the purpose, and, upon completion, the applicant shall acknowledge the correctness of the particulars by affixing his signature, fingerprint or mark in the presence of the registration officer or the person authorized as aforesaid in such place in the form as may be indicated. (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(3) (Repealed L.N. 178 of 1987)
(4) Notwithstanding subregulations (1) and (2), an applicant who is a consul may furnish, and the registration officer may accept, suitable passport size photographs of the consul, the spouse and dependent children of the age of 11 years and above of the consul and of the consular staff of the consul, their spouses and their dependent children of the age of 11 years and above, and the recording of their left thumb-prints or other single fingerprints shall not be required. (L.N. 33 of 1980; L.N. 178 of 1987)
5. Delivery of identity cards
(L.N. 158 of 1973)
(1) Subject to subregulation (1A), after due compliance by any applicant with the provisions of regulation 4 and the payment by him to the registration officer of the appropriate fee (if any) prescribed in Schedule 2, the registration officer shall cause to be prepared for collection by such applicant an identity card-
(G.N.A. 55 of 1961; L.N. 158 of 1973; L.N. 204 of 1979; L.N. 86 of 1983)
(a) in a form approved by the Governor in Council containing such of the information specified in Schedule 1 as is appropriate to an identity card of the type for which the applicant is eligible; or
(b) in a form approved by the Governor in respect of consuls, consular staff and their spouses and dependent children.