Hong Kong Regulations

REGISTRATION OF PERSONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 8

Duty to keep and maintain records

(Past version on 01/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Commissioner shall for the purposes of the Ordinance and these
regulations keep such records as he may consider necessary which shall contain
all the names of an applicant and the particulars furnished by him under
regulation 4(1)(b) and such other particulars as the Commissioner may, in any
particular case, consider necessary. (L.N. 178 of 1987)

(2) For the purposes of such records or for such other purposes as a
registration officer may consider necessary, he may record fingerprints,
information and documents furnished or made for the purposes of registration
or for the issue or renewal of an identity card by-

   (a)  photographing;

   (b)  scanning; or

   (c)  image capturing. (9 of 2003 s. 11)

(3) A registration officer shall destroy identity cards, photographs,
fingerprints, information and documents furnished by applicants which are in
his possession-

   (a)  when he considers that such identity cards, photographs, fingerprints,
        information and documents are obsolete and no longer required; or

   (b)  when so ordered by the Chief Secretary for Administration. (L.N. 158
        of 1973; L.N. 86 of 1983; L.N. 178 of 1987; L.N. 362 of 1997)