Regulations, 2013

L.N. 340 of 2013

IDENTITY CARD AND OTHER IDENTITY DOCUMENTS ACT

(CAP. 258)

Identity Cards (Issue and Validity)

Regulations, 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 23 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) Regulations, 2013 and these regulations 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 as follows:-

"Provided that, with effect from the 1st of January 2014,

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

2015 shall, notwithstanding the expiry date appearing on such

identity card, remain valid until the 31st December 2015 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 2015

or before such date as the Prime Minister may by regulations

establish as aforesaid. With effect from 1st December 2013, 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 December 2015, 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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