Issue and Validity of Identity Cards (Amendment) Regulations,

L.N. 143 of 2020

IDENTITY CARD AND OTHER IDENTITY DOCUMENTS

ACT

(CAP. 258)

Issue and Validity of Identity Cards (Amendment) Regulations,

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 23 of the

Identity Card and other Identity Documents Act, the Prime Minister

has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Issue and Validity of

Identity Cards (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Issue and Validity of

Identity Cards Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) sub-regulation (1) thereof shall be renumbered as

regulation 3;

(b)

sub-regulation (2) thereof shall be deleted; and

(c) the proviso thereof, shall be substituted by the

following

"Provided that, with effect from the 13th April

2020, identity cards issued after the 12th of February 2014,

whose identifying number contains any of the letters ‘B’,

‘G’, ‘H’, ‘L’, ‘M’, ‘P’ and ‘Z’, which expire before the 30 th

June,

2020 shall, notwithstanding the expiry date

appearing on such identity card, remain valid until the 30 th

June, 2020 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 30 th June, 2020 or before such date as the Prime

Minister may by regulations establish as aforesaid.".

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