Identity Cards (Issue and Validity) (Amendment) Regulations,

L.N. 9 of 2006

IDENTITY CARD ACT

(CAP. 258)

Identity Cards (Issue and Validity) (Amendment) Regulations,

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 13 of the Identity

Card Act, the Prime Minister has made the following regulations>–

These regulations may be cited as the Identity Cards (Issue

and Validity) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006 and shall be read and

construed as one with the Identity Cards (Issue and Validity)

Regulations, 1996 hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

The proviso in paragraph (1) of regulation 3 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted with the following>–

“Provided that, with effect from the 1 st of January 2006, any

identity card issued after the 15 th of January 2002 and prior to the

1 st of January 2006 which expires before the 31 st of December

2006 shall, notwithstanding the expiry date appearing on such

identity card, remain valid up to the 31 st December 2006 and such

identity card shall not be deemed to have expired before the 31 st

December 2006.”.

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