(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), if administrative convenience so requires, the Governor may direct that such registration of all persons shall be effected progressively according to description or category of persons to be specified from time to time by order made under this subsection and published in the Gazette.
(3) On the publication of any such order made under subsection (2), every person so described or being a person of a category so specified shall make application to be registered under this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder.
(4) Every application for registration made in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 8.
Evidence. 4. A certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Commissioner of Registration certifying that the document or photostat copy annexed thereto with his seal is a true facsimile of the statement or document it represents shall be admissible in evidence in any court, without further proof, as evidence of such statement or document and the contents thereof and of the signature of the Commissioner of Registration thereto. The provisions of section 20 of the (Cap. 8).Evidence Ordinance shall apply to all such certificates, and to the documents and photostat copies attached thereto.
Duty to use registered name and to submit number of identity card. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, every person of the age of seventeen years and upwards, unless exempted from the provisions of this Ordinance by regulations made thereunder, shall in all dealings with Government—
- (a) use the personal name and surname by which he elected to be registered; and
- (b) furnish the number of his identity card to the satisfaction of the public officer requiring such number; and
- (c) when he is required by law to furnish particulars of any other person, so far as he is able—
- (i) submit the personal name and surname by which such other person elected to be registered; and
- (ii) furnish the number of the identity card relating to such person to the satisfaction of the public officer requiring it.
Power of search. 6. (1) The Commissioner of Registration, any registration officer so authorized by him, the Immigration Officer for the Colony, any police officer of or above the rank of sub-inspector, any deputy immigration officer, and any immigration control officer so authorized by the Immigration Officer may without warrant and with or without assistance
- (a) enter and search any premises;
