(3) A delegation under subsection (1)(a) does not prevent the Director-General from exercising the power in question himself or herself.
(4) A delegation or authority granted under a provision which is repealed by section 24 and which was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been granted under this section.
Chapter 2
Population Register
Compilation and maintenance of population register
5. (1) The Director-General shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, in the prescribed manner compile and thereafter maintain a population register for the Republic.
(2) The particulars required for the compilation and maintenance of the population register shall be obtained by the Director-General in the prescribed manner from the information referred to in section 2.
Access to population register
6. Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall have access to the population register and no person shall record or amend any particulars in such register unless specifically authorised thereto by the Director-General.
Assignment of identity numbers
7. (1) The Director-General shall assign an identity number to every person whose particulars are included in the population register in terms of section 8.
(2) An identity number shall be compiled in the prescribed manner out of figures and shall, in addition to a serial, index and control number, consist of a reproduction, in figure codes, of the following particulars, and no other particulars whatsoever, of the person to whom it has been assigned, namely—
Particulars to be included in population register
8. There shall in respect of any person referred to in section 3, be included in the population register the following relevant particulars available to the Director-General, namely—