1989 Ed.]
Registration of Persons Regulations
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[Subsidiary]
report to a registration officer, surrender that card and apply for an identity card in place of that card.
(2) If a registration officer is satisfied, on an application under subregulation (1) by any person, that that person enjoys the right of abode in Hong Kong the registration officer shall issue to the applicant a permanent identity card.
(3) An identity card surrendered to a registration officer under subregulation (1) shall thereupon cease to be valid.
(4) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1).
7B. Invalidity of permanent identity card issued abroad
(L.N. 382 of 1989)
(1) Where a registration officer is satisfied that a person to whom a permanent identity card that was issued on an application from outside Hong Kong has not complied with regulation 7A(1), 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 to apply for an identity card at such place, in such manner, and within such period, as he may require.
(2) If a registration officer is satisfied, on an application under subregulation (1) by any person, that that person enjoys the right of abode in Hong Kong the registration officer shall issue to the applicant a permanent identity card.
(3) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1).
8. Duty to keep and maintain records
(L.N. 382 of 1989)
(1) The Commissioner shall for the purposes of the Ordinance and these regulations keep such records as he may consider necessary which shall contain all the names of an applicant and the particulars furnished by him under regulation 4(1)(b) and such other particulars as the Commissioner may, in any particular case, consider necessary. (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(2) For the purposes of such records or for such other purposes as a registration officer may consider necessary, he may photograph fingerprints, information and documents furnished or made for the purposes of registration or for the issue or renewal of an identity card. (L.N. 86 of 1983; L.N. 178 of 1987)
(3) A registration officer shall destroy identity cards, photographs, fingerprints, information and documents furnished by applicants which are in his possession-