Ordinance No. 11 of 1922.
Appoint-
Iments,
Head of any Ecclesiastical, Charitable, Educational, Professional, Social, Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural or Fisheries Organi zation in the Colony;
"forgery'' has the same meaning as in the Forgery
Ordinance, 1922;
"prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under
this Ordinance:
"Register" means the register of persons kept by the Registration Commissioner,
"Registration Commissioner" means the officer appointed as Commissioner of Registration for the Colony;
"Assistant Commissionce"! means
officer appointed as Assistant Commissioner of Registration for the Colony :
"Registrar" means at officer appointed as Registrar of Persons for the Colony;
**Assistant Registrar" means an 'offoes appointed as Assistant Registrar of Persons for the Colung 2
"Registration Officer' means the Registration Commissioner or any Assistant Commissioner. Registrar or Assistant Registrar;
“Identity Card" means a curd of identity issued by on behalf of the Registration Commissioner under the provisions of this Ordinance.
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(2) Save where the contrary expressly appears or other provision is made by rule any order or direction required by this Ordinance may be given verbally or in writing.
3. (1) The Governor may appoint, by name or office, an officer to be Commissioner of Registration, and officers to be styled Assistant Commissioners of Registration, Registrars and Assistanı Registrars.
(2) The powers and discretions vested in the Registration Commissioner hereunder and duties required to be discharged by him may be exercised and discharged by an Assistant Commissioner or such other officers as the Governor may specify by Notice.
Compulsory 4. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of this registration section and section 15 every person being in the Colony on the persona. coming into force of this Ordinance or who thereafter enters the
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Colony shall make application to be registered under this Ordinance.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1) of this section, if administrative convenience so requires the Governor may direct that such registration of all persons shall be effected progressively according to description or category of persons to be specified from time to time by Order made under this sub-section and published in the Gazette.
(3) On publication of any such Order every person so described or being a person of a category so specified shall make application to be registered under this Ordinance.
(4) Every application for registration made in com- pliance with sub-section (1) of this section shall be made in manner prescribed and every such application made in compliance with an Order made under sub-section (2) of this section shall be made in such manner as may be specified in such Order and in manner prescribed.
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persons
5. (1) Every person who enters the Colony after the Registro- publication of an Order made under sub-section (2) of section shall, if he is a person described or a person of a category becoming specified in such Order, make application within seven days of subject to
Order after his entry into the Colony to be registered under this Ordinance. date of
publication. (2) Every person, who is not a person described or a person of a category specified in an Order made under sub-section (2) of section 4 at the date of the publication of such Order, shall, if he subsequently becomes a person su described or a person of such category, thereupon make application to be registered under this Ordinance.
(3) Every application for registration made under this section shall be made in such manner as may be specified in such Order and in manner described.
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6. The Registration Commissioner shall cause to be Mainten- maintained such Register as may be prescribed in which shall be ance entered the name and such other particulars us may be prescribed Register. of any applicant: Provided that a Registration Officer may refuse to enter the name and particulars or, if already entered, may delete the name and particulars of any applicant whom he has reason to believe has supplied him with particulars which are materially false.