Hong Kong Regulations

REGISTRATION OF PERSONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4A

Inclusion of certain particulars and data with consent

(1) Without prejudice to regulation 5(1)(a), the Commissioner or any person
acting pursuant to a permission given by the Commissioner may, for the
purposes referred to in column 1 of Schedule 5 and with the consent of the
applicant for an identity card or the person to whom an identity card relates-

   (a)  include in the identity card the information or particulars; and

   (b)  store in the chip embodied in the identity card the data, referred to
        in column 2 of Schedule 5 which are not information, particulars or
        data specified in regulation 4(1) or Schedule 1.

(2) If-

   (a)  the Commissioner or any person acting pursuant to a permission under
        subregulation (1) has stored any data in a chip embodied in an
        identity card under that subregulation with the consent of the person
        to whom the identity card relates; and

   (b)  the person to whom the identity card relates presents the identity
        card to the Commissioner or the person acting pursuant to such
        permission, as the case may be, and requests the removal of such data
        from the chip, the Commissioner or the person acting pursuant to such
        permission, as the case may be, shall as soon as practicable remove
        the data from the chip.

(3) A permission referred to in subregulation (1) may be-

   (a)  given by the Commissioner-

        (i)    to any person or any class of persons; or

        (ii)   generally or in a particular case, in such manner; and

   (b)  subject to such condition, as the Commissioner thinks fit.

(9 of 2003 s. 10)