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(a) to prescribe the manner in which application registration of persons under this Ordinance shall be made;
(b) to prescribe the forms which may be used for carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance;
(c) to prescribe the information to be furnished to a Registration Officer;
(d) to prescribe the documents to be furnished to a Registration Officer;
(e) to make provision for the taking and recording of photographs and fingerprints of applicants and to make provision for the destruction of the same on expiration of this Ordinance;
(/) to prescribe the form of and the particulars to be entered in the Register;
(g) to prescribe the form of and the particulars to be entered on Identity Cards, including provision for photographis and fingerprints of the person to whom such card relates;
(h) to make provision for the issue of duplicate Identity Cards in case of loss, destruction or defacement;
(i) to provide for the custody and carriage of and for the production to specified persons of Identity Cards;
(j) to prescribe times and places for the attendance before a Registration Officer of applicants and holders of Identity Cards;
(k) to exempt any person or category of persons either wholly or in part from the provisions of this Ordinance;
(1) to prescribe fees;
(m) generally for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to any matter, whether similar or not to those in this sub-section mentioned, as to which it may be convenient to make rules.
(2) Any rule made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and that a person guilty of such offence shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months unless a lesser penalty is prescribed by such rule.
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(3) The rules in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall force except so far as they may be rescinded or amended by rules made under this section.
14. The burden of proving the truth of the contents of any No written application for registration or the contents of an Identity presump-
tion of Card shall lie on the applicant, or on the person to whom such truth of Identity Card has been issued, or on any other person alleging contents of
Identity the truth of such contents.
Cards, etc.
15.
The following persons shall be exempted from the Exemp- provisions of this Ordinance :-
(a) The Governor ;
(b) Members of His Majesty's Regular Naval, Military or Air Forces in possession of the official identity card or document of identity normally issued to members of such Forces;
(c) Members of the Hong Kong Police Force;
(d) Any bona fide traveller in transit through the Colony provided he is in possession of a passport or of an official document of identity bearing a transit visa issued by competent authority;
(e) Children under the age of 12 years;
(f) Any person exempted by rule made under section 13: Provided that the burden of proving that a person is exempted from the provisions of this Ordinance shall be on the person claiming exemption.
tions.
16. (1) It shall be lawful for Legislative Council by Power to
suspend resolution--
or revive
of the
(a) from time to time to declare the suspension of operation the operation of this Ordinance from the date named in the Ordinance. resolution; and
(b) from time to time to declare that any suspension declared under paragraph (a) hereof shall terminate as from the date mentioned in the resolution.
(2) The suspension of this Ordinance under paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) shall until the termination of such suspension have the same effect as the repeal of an enactment.