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REGISTRATION OF PERSONS
No. 18 of 1960.
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(d) the method and manner by which information and documents furnished by a person requiring to be registered are to be recorded and maintained;
(e) the photographing of fingerprints, information and documents furnished or made for the purposes of registration and the destruction of their originals;
(f) the use of films and photographic reproductions of such films;
(g) the issue of identity cards, their form, and particulars to be entered thereon;
(h) the custody and production of identity cards;
(i) the inspection of identity cards;
(j) the amendment or cancellation of identity cards, and the issue of duplicates thereof;
(k) the issue of reports and certificates;
(l) the exemption of any person or category of persons from the provisions of this Ordinance;
(m) destruction of documents and records;
(n) forms;
(o) fees.

(3) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties for such offence not exceeding a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.

Power to suspend or revive operation of Ordinance. 9. (1) It shall be lawful for the Legislative Council by resolution—

(a) from time to time to declare the suspension of the operation of this Ordinance from the date named in the resolution; and
(b) from time to time to declare that any suspension declared under paragraph (a) shall terminate as from the date mentioned in the resolution.

(2) The suspension of this Ordinance under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) shall until the termination of such suspension have the same effect as the repeal of an enactment.

(3) The termination of the suspension under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall have the same effect as if the Ordinance had been re-enacted and come into operation on the date as from which the suspension is declared to terminate save and except that any regulations which were in force at the date when the suspension, which has thus been terminated, came into effect, shall revive and continue to have full force and effect.