Power to call For further information,
Responsibility
for custody of identity card.
Duty to carry and produce identity card.
Prohibition against
9.
Any registration officer may-
(a) summon before him any person and require him to answer any question which he may reasonably consider necessary to ask him for the purpose of the carrying out of the provisions of the Ordinance or of these regulations:
(6) require any applicant to make such declaration, under oath or otherwise, or furnish such further particulars, as he may reasonably require:
(c) require any person who has to comply with the provisions of paragraph (2) of regulation 4 to make such declaration, under oath or otherwise, or furnish such further particulars, as he may reasonably require.
10.
Subject to the provisions of these regulations-
(a)
the applicant, other than a person under seventeen years of age, to whom an identity card has been issued. shall be responsible for the custody thereof; and
(b) the head of a family the members of whose family have been issued with identity cards shall be responsible for the custody thereof.
11. (1) The Governor in Council may require by order published in the Gazerre that, on such occasions and for such periods as may be specified in such order, every person required to be registered under the Ordinance and these regulations shall carry on his person his identity card.
(2) During the currency of an order made under paragraph (1) any police officer and any person or class or category of persons authorized, either by name or description, for the purpose by the Commissioner of Police may require any person of six years of age or over to produce his identity card for inspection, and if such person refuses or fails to produce such card on demand or within such time as such police officer or person or persons so authorized may allow, he shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) For the purposes of identification any police officer or person or persons so authorized may, during the currency of an order made under paragraph (1), at any time take the left thumb-print, or, if dris is not possible, such other single fingerprint and written signature (if such person is able to write) of any person who be believes to be of six years of age or over and any person whose fingerprint and written signature are required under this regulation shall submit to all such steps as may be reasonably necessary for the taking thereof.
12. Any person who, without the authority of the Commissioner, makes any mark or entry upon, or erases, cancels or alters any mark or entry contained in, or otherwise defaces, or destroys, an identity card Identity card, or transfers an identity card shall be guilty of an offence.
making alteration to
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13. (1) If an identity card has been lost, destroyed, damaged, buty to
etc., of
or defaced, the person to whom it relates shall so inform the registra- notify loss, tion officer within thirty days of such loss, destruction, damage or identity card. defacement,
(2) The Commissioner may-
(a) after production of such evidence, under oath or otherwise,
as he may require; and
(b) after such investigation as he may consider necessary; and (c) upon such conditions as he may impose,
issue another identity card in replacement of the one lost, destroyed, or
so damaged or defaced as to render it useless for purposes of identifica.
rion,
14. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of regulation Power to 13, the Commissioner may, it be considers it necessary or advisable and replace upon such evidence, under oath or otherwise, as he may require-
(a) replace an identity card which requires alteration; or (6) issue to the person named thereon, a new card, upon receipt of a request, for such alteration or new card from the person to whom such card was first delivered.
15.
identity card. and to issue new card,
Any person who finds an identity card which does not belong Duty of to him or to a member of his family shall forthwith cause it to be finder of
ideality card. delivered to any registration office or police station.
card for
16. Upon the death of a person to whom an identity card was Duty to issued, the person in possession of his card shall deliver it within four- turn identity con days after the date of the death to the registration officer for cancellation, cancellation. The registration officer may, if the person who delivered the identity card so requires, return it to such person within fourteen days of its cancellation.
17. (1) Any person who-
Duty to notity
(a) intends to leave the Colony for a period exceeding one month departure
or more shall, before his departure, notify the registration and arrival officer, in such form as the Commissioner may prescribe, of surrender the date of departure and probable date of return; or
(6) returns to the Colony shall, within seven days of his arrival, notify the registration officer, in such form as the Commis- sioner may prescribe, of the date of his return,
cacept that in the case of a person of six years of age and over and under seventeen years the requisite notification in respect of such person shall be given by the head of the family of such persOD.
and to
identity card.