Identity Cards (Issue and Validity) (issueandvalidity)

L.N. 464 of 2012

IDENTITY CARD ACT

(CAP. 258)

Identity Cards (Issue and Validity)

(Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2012

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 No. 2) Regulations, 2012 and shall be read

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

Regulations, 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 2013,

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

2013 shall, notwithstanding the expiry date appearing on such

identity card, remain valid until the 31 st December 2013 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 31 st December 2013

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 31st of March

2013, 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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