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Saturday, May 27, 1972

REGISTRATION TEAM TO OPERATE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES

Residents Urged To Make Use Of Facilities Provided

The Commissioner of Registration announced today that a team from

the Registration of Persons Department will conduct registration at the

Yuen Long Resettlement Estate, Yuen Long Kai Fong Association Office from

Thursday, June 1, 1972 to Thursday, June 8, 1972. Business hours vill be

from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays and from 9.00 a.m. to

1.00 p.m. on Saturdays.

The visits will enable (i) parents or guardians to register their

children from six to seventeen years of age for juvenile Identity Cards

(ii) young persons 17 years of age and over and holding juvenile Identity

Cards, to register for adult Identity Cards.

All persons living in the area are reminded of their responsibility

(i) to register themselves and their children for Identity Cards and (ii)

to report to the Registration of Persons Department any changes of employments

or residential addresses, nationality or marital status or any other particulars

which have changed since registering for their Identity Cards.

Children between six and seventeen years of age who have Hong Kong

Birth Certificates or valid travel documents need not attend for registration,

but children who do not have Birth Certificates or valid travel documents,

must accompany their parents or guardians when registering.

Parents or guardians must produce both their (i.e. husband and wife)

Identity Cards for inspection when registering juveniles.

/On registering