(2) The powers and discretions vested in the Commissioner of Registration and duties required to be discharged by him may be exercised and discharged by an assistant commissioner of registration or such other officers as the Governor may specify by notification in the Gazette.
(3) The Governor may establish or set up such offices as he may deem necessary for the purposes of this Ordinance and may appoint an officer to be known by such style as the Governor may decide, to have charge of each such office.
Compulsory registration
3.
(1) Subject to-
of persons.
Evidence.
(Cap. 8).
(a) the provisions of subsection (2):
(b) the provisos to section 10; and
(c) any exemptions which may be granted by regulations made
under this Ordinance,
every person being in the Colony at the commencement of this Ordin- ance or who thereafter enters the Colony shall make application to be registered under the provisions of this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), if administra- tive convenience so requires, the Governor may direct that such registra- tion 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 subsection and published in the Gazette.
(3) On the publication of any such order made under subsection (2), every person so described or being a person of a category so specified sball muke application to be registered under this Ordinanc and any regulations made thereunder.
(4) Every application for registration made in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 8.
A certificate purporting to be under the band of the Commis sioner of Registration certifying that the document or photostat copy annexed thereto with his seal is a true facsimile of the statement of document it represents shall be admissible in evidence in any court without further proof, as evidence of such statement or document and the contents thereof and of the signature of the Commissioner of Registration thereto. The provisions of section 20 of the Evidence Ordinance shall apply to all such certificates, and to the documents and photostat copies attached thereto.
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Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary. Duty to use every person of the age of seventeen years and upwards, unless exempted registered from the provisions of this Ordinance by regulations made thereunder, shall in all dealings with Government-
Done and
to submit number of identity
(a) use the personal name and suroame by which he elected to be card.
registered: and
(b) furnish the number of his identity card to the satisfaction of
the public officer requiring such number; and
(c) when he is required by law to furnish particulars of any other
person, so far as he is able-
(1) submit the personal name and surname by which such other person elected to be registered; and
(i) furnish the number of the identity card relating to such person to the satisfaction of the public officer requiring it.
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6. (1) The Commissioner of Registration, any registration officer Power of so authorized by him, the Immigration Officer for the Colony, any police officer of or above the rank of sub-inspector, any deputy im- migration officer, and any immigration control officer so authorized by the Immigration Officer may without warrant and with or without assistance-
(a) enter and search any premises:
(b) stop and search any vessel, vehicle or individual whether in a
public place or not,
if he has reason to believe that any evidence of the commission of an offence against this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder is likely to be found on such premises or individual or in such vessel or vehicle, and way seize any evidence so found.
(2) A female person shall be searched under this section only by another female person.
7. Any person whom the Commissioner of Registration, or the Power of Immigration Officer for the Colony, or any deputy immigration officer, Arrest or any immigration control officer so authorized by the Immigration Officer reasonably believes has committed an offence against this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder may be arrested without
warrant-
(a) in the absence of the Immigration Officer for the Colony, or a police officer, or deputy immigration officer, or such duly authorized immigration control officer, by the Commissioner of Registration who shall either forthwith give such person into the custody of any police officer, or into the custody of any deputy immigration officer or immigration control officer.