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Taking of

1. I shall be lawful to require applicants for registration fingerprint under this Ordinance to submit to the recording of fingerprints impression

and the taking of photographs by the prescribed officer.

and photo- graphs.

Power of Registra-

tion

Officer to

eall for

further infor910- tion.

Powers of Registra-

tion

Com-

missioner.

Arrest and search.

Identity Carde.

6. It shall be lawful for a Registration Officer-

(a) to 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 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.

9. The Registration Commissioner or any police officer authorized in writing by the Registration Commissioner in that behalf, may-

(a) arrest and bring before a magistrate any person whom he has reason to suspect of having contravened or attempted to contravene any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Rules made hereunder;

(b) search the person and property and effects of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest ; Provided that a female shall be searched by a female, and that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to being so searched;

(c) search any place in which such officer has reason to suspect that there may be anything which may be evidence of any contravention or intended contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Rules made hereunder or which may belong to or be in the possession of or under the sole or partial control of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest and take and carry away any such thing.

10. (1) The Registration Commissioner shall issue Identity Cards to all persons whose names and particulars have been entered in the Register.

(2) Each Identity Card shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed.

shall (3) It

be lawful for the Registration Commissioner to call for and to cancel the Identity Card of any person whose name he deletes from the Register in accordance with section 6 hereof.

11.

It shall be lawful for the Registration Commissioner to Dis- dismiss without notice and without formal enquiry any Registrar, siplinary Assistant Registrar or subordinate member of the Department Registre-

powera of

of the Registration Commissioner whom he is satisfied has been tion

Com- guilty of misconduct or has been negligent or inefficient in the missioner. performance of his duty.

12. (0) Any person who fails to apply to be registered Offences. under section 4 or section 5, or who obstructs any Order made under section 4; or

(3) Any person who fails to comply with a requirement for the taking of fingerprint impressions or of photographs made under section 7 of this Ordinance, or who obstructs any such requirement; or

(3) Any person who fails to comply with a summons or a requirement of a Registration Officer made under section 8 of this Ordinance; or

(4) Any person who commits forgery of any document, provision for which is made in this Ordinance or in Rules mađe hereunder; or

(5) Any person who without lawful authority, 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, or transfers an Identity Card; or

(6) Any person who without lawful authority or reason- able excuse knowingly obtains or is in possession of more than one Identity Card or is in possession of an Identity Card other than his own; or

(7) Any person who takes any statement or furnishes any information to any Registration Officer or to his employer under the provisions of this Ordinance or of Rules made here- under, whether such statement or information be verbal or in writing, which is false in any material particular and which he either knows or has reason to believe is false; or