Hong Kong Regulations

REGISTRATION OF PERSONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3D

Holder of permanent identity card not enjoying right of abode in Hong Kong

(1) Where a registration officer is satisfied that a person to whom a
permanent identity card has been issued no longer has, or never had, the right
of abode in Hong Kong, he may by such means as he may determine declare the
card to be invalid, order it to be surrendered to a registration officer and
order the person to whom the card was issued, unless he is an exempt person or
an excluded person or lives outside Hong Kong, to apply for an identity card
other than a permanent identity card at such place, in such manner, and within
such period, as he may require.

(2) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any permanent
identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1). (L.N. 178 of 1987)