Regulations, 2011

L.N. 497 of 2011

IDENTITY CARD ACT

(CAP. 258)

Identity Cards (Issue and Validity) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 13 of the

Identity Card Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Identity Cards

(Issue and Validity) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 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 1st of January 2012,

identity cards issued after the 15th of January 2002, whose

identifying number contains any of the letters ‘B’, ‘G’, ‘H’, ‘L’,

‘M’, ‘P’ and ‘Z’, which expire before the 31st of December 2012

shall, notwithstanding the expiry date appearing on such identity

card, remain valid until the 31st December 2012 or until such other

date as the Prime Minister may by regulations establish, whichever

is the earlier, and such identity cards shall not be deemed to have

expired before the 31st December 2012 or before such date as the

Prime Minister may by regulations establish as aforesaid. In the

case of identity cards issued after the 15th of January 2002, whose

identifying number contains the letter ‘A’, these shall remain

valid until the 28th of June 2012, or until such date as the Prime

Minister may by regulations establish, whichever is the earlier,

notwithstanding the expiry date appearing on such identity cards.”.

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