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Appoint- ments.
of all persons.
(2) Save where the contrary expressly appears or provision is made by rule any order or direction required by s Ordinance may be given verbally or in writing.
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(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 Assistant 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 coming into force of this Ordinance or who thereafter enters the Colony shall make application to be registered under this Ordinance.
Registra- tion of
(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.
5. (1) Every person who enters the Colony after the publication of an Order made under sub-section (2) of section 4 shall, if he is a person described or a person of a category specified in such Order, make application within seven days of Order after his entry into the Colony to be registered under this Ordinance.
persons becoming subject to
date of
publication.
(2) Every person, who is not a person described or a peon 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 so 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 as 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.
7. It shall be lawful to require applicants for registration Taking of under this Ordinance to submit to the recording of fingerprints fingerprint and the taking of photographs by the prescribed officer.
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impression and photo- graphs.
Power of Registra-
Officer to
It shall be lawful for a Registration Officer--
(a) to summon before him any person and require him tion to answer any question which he may reasonably consider call for necessary to ask him for the purpose of the carrying out of the further provisions of this Ordinance or of Rules made hereunder;
(b) to require any applicant to make such further declaration or supply such further particulars as he may reason- ably require;
(c) to require any employer who has made application for registration on behalf of any person to make such further declaration or supply such further particulars as he may reason- ably require.
informa- tion.
9. The Registration Commissioner or any police officer Powers of authorized in writing by the Registration Commissioner in that Registra- behalf, may-
tion Com- missioner.