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Citation and com- mencement.

Interpreta tion.

(Cap. 209).

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REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 18 of 1960).

REGISTRATION OF PERSONS REGULATIONS, 1960.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations→

1. These regulations may be cited as the Registration of Persons Regulations, 1960, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commencement of the Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1960.

2. (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- “applicant" means a person required to make application for registra-

tion under the provisions of section 3 of the Ordinence; “Commissioner" means the officer appointed as commissioner of registra-

tion under the provisions of section 2 of the Ordinance; "consul" means a consul de carriere or a trade commissioner or other commissioner or special representative officially appointed as such by the United Kingdom or other member of the Commonwealth or by the government of the appropriate foreign power and who would not otherwise be living in the Colony:

*consular staff” means those members of the staff of a consul who have been appointed to their positions by the government of the appe- priate foreign power and who would not otherwise be living in the Colony:

"head of a family" means a person who is în loco parentis to any other person living in the Colony of six years of age and over and under seventeen years;

"family" means persons living in the Colony of six years of age and| over and under seventeen years who are related to or dependent on the head of a family;

"forge" has the same meaning as forgery has in the Forgery Ordinance: "identity card" means a card of identity issued by or on behalf of the

Commissioner under the provisions of these regulations; "registration officer" means the Commissioner or any assistant commis

sioner, district registrar, registrar or assistant registrar, of registra- tion:

"registration office" means an office established or set up under sub-

section (3) of section 2 of the Ordinance.

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(2) Save where the contrary expressly appears any order or direc- tion required to be made or given by these regulations may be given in writing or verbally.

3. (1) All persons within the Colony at the commencement of Duty te these regulations, unless the provisions of any order made under sub- register. section (2) of section 3 of the Ordinance otherwise require, and all persons entering the Colony after such commencement (except such persons as are referred to in the provisos to section 10 of the Ordinance and such persons as are exempted under the provisions of regulation 26) skall report to a registration office---

(a) within thirty days in the case of all such persons already in the

Colony at such commencement; and

(b) within ten days in the case of all such persons entering the

Colony in manner aforesaid,

of the commencement of these regulations or entry into the Colony, as the case may be, and register in accordance with these regulations.

(2) Any person within the Colony who ceases to be exempted from gistration under the provisions of regulation 26 shall within fourteen days of ceasing to be so exempt, report to a registration office and register in accordance with these regulations.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), it shall be the duty of every bead of a family to register every member of his family, who for the purposes of these regulations shall be treated as separate applicants, in accordance with the provisions thereof.

4. (1) Every applicant for registration of the age of seventeen Registration years and upwards shall-

(a) submit to all such steps as may be reasonably necessary for the taking of photographs of himself in accordance with any direc- tions given by the registration officer:

(b) submit to all such steps as may be reasonably necessary for the taking and recording of his left thumb-print, or, if this is not possible, such other single fingerprint and, if so required by the registration officer at the time, his written signature;

(c) furnish, in writing, the following particulars to the registration

officer in such form as he may require, namely-

(i) the full personal name and surname by which he elects

to be registered and, if he is known by or uses different personal names or surnames, each of such names, in full;

(i) his residential and business addresses within the Colony;

(iii) the nationality he claims:

requirement.