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Registration of Persons Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(b) in the case of such damage or defacement, surrender that damaged or defaced card to the registration officer within that period; and
(c) apply for a replacement identity card in such manner as the
registration officer may require. (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(2) A registration officer may- (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(a) after production of such evidence, under oath or otherwise as he
may require; and
(aa) (Repealed L.N. 178 of 1987)
(b) after such investigation as he may consider necessary; and
(ba) (Repealed L.N. 178 of 1987)
(c) upon such conditions as he may impose; and
(d) upon payment to him of the appropriate fee (if any) prescribed in
Schedule 2, (G.N.A. 55 of 1961)
issue to that person a replacement identity card in the place of the one lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced. (L.N. 204 of 1979; L.N. 178 of 1987)
(3) 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. (L.N. 178 of 1987)
(4) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any damaged or defaced identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1). (L.N. 178 of 1987)
13A. Furnishing false particulars
of loss etc. of identity card
Any person who makes any statement or declaration or furnishes any particulars or evidence to a registration officer alleging that an identity card has been lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced knowing that such statement, declaration or particulars or evidence is false in any material particular commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(L.N. 86 of 1983)
13B. Lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced identity card ceasing to be valid
Where a person has reported to a registration officer under regulation 13(1) that an identity card has been lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced, the identity card shall, from the time that that report is made to the registration officer, cease to be valid.
(L.N. 178 of 1987)