Hong Kong Ordinances

REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDINANCE - SECT 10

Power to certify and furnish certified copies

A registration officer may, upon receipt of the written and signed request
from the person to whom an identity card relates (accompanied, if such person
is living outside Hong Kong, with his photograph and a copy of his left or
right thumb-print or such other fingerprint as the registration  officer may
require, both properly authenticated by a notary public) and payment of the
fee prescribed in Schedule 2 to the Registration of Persons  Regulations (
Cap 177 sub. leg. A)-

   (a)  certify to the correctness or otherwise of such matters relating to
        such person contained in the written request which are within his
        knowledge; and

   (b)  furnish a certified copy of the photograph of such person or relevant
        document in his custody. (Added 9 of 2003 s. 7)