### Registration of Persons Regulations 《人事登記規例》

3A. Permanent identity cards for purpose of international travel
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), every person who is not an exempt person or an excluded person, and who wishes to apply under section 3A of the Ordinance for a permanent identity card shall apply in person to a registration officer for such permanent identity card. (L.N. 250 of 1991) 
(1A) A person who is an exempt person by virtue of regulation 25(e) or (g) and who wishes to apply for a permanent identity card shall submit to all such steps and furnish such forms and evidence as the Commissioner may specify. (L.N. 260 of 1996)
(2) Where a person referred to in subregulation (1) lives outside Hong Kong and is unable to apply in person to a registration officer the applicant shall instead submit to all such steps and furnish such forms and evidence as the Commissioner may specify. (L.N. 250 of 1991) 
(3) If the registration officer is satisfied, on an application under subregulation (1), (1A) or (2) by any person, that that person, whether he lives in Hong Kong or elsewhere— (L.N. 260 of 1996) 
(a) enjoys the right of abode in Hong Kong; and 
(b) is also applying for a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passport or a certificate of identity, (127 of 1997 s. 16; 28 of 1998 s. 2(1))
the registration officer shall, in accordance with these regulations, issue to the applicant a permanent identity card.
(L.N. 178 of 1987)

### Registration of Persons Regulations 《人事登記規例》

3B. New identity cards
(1) Subject to subregulations (2) and (3), every person who is not an exempt person or an excluded person, and who is required by section 7B(1) of the Ordinance to apply for an identity card shall apply in person to a registration officer for such identity card. (L.N. 250 of 1991) 
(2) Without prejudice to subregulation (1) the Commissioner may, in such special circumstances as he may determine, make arrangements for applications for identity cards to be received, and for such identity cards to be collected, at mobile or temporary offices as he may specify. 
(3) Any person who is issued by a registration officer with a document acknowledging that that person has applied for an identity card under subregulation (1) shall be deemed to have complied with that subregulation. 
(4) If a registration officer is satisfied, on an application under subregulation (1) by any person, that that person enjoys the right of abode in Hong Kong the registration officer shall, in accordance with these regulations, issue to the applicant a permanent identity card. 
(L.N. 178 of 1987) 

3C. Perforated identity cards
(1) At the time of applying for an identity card under regulation 3A or 3B the applicant shall present his existing identity card (if any) for it to be converted into a perforated identity card. 
(2) The registration officer may perforate, with an expiry date, an existing identity card presented under subregulation (1). 
(3) A perforated identity card shall expire on the date shown by the perforation made under subregulation (2) and shall thereupon cease to be valid. 
(4) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any perforated identity card which has ceased to be valid under subregulation (3) and surrendered to him by any person under any of these regulations. 
(L.N. 178 of 1987)

### Registration of Persons Regulations 《人事登記規例》

3D. Holder of permanent identity card not enjoying right of abode in Hong Kong
(1) Where a registration officer is satisfied that a person to whom a permanent identity card has been issued no longer has, or never had, the right of abode in Hong Kong, he may by such means as he may determine declare the card to be invalid, order it to be surrendered to a registration officer and order the person to whom the card was issued, unless he is an exempt person or an excluded person or lives outside Hong Kong, to apply for an identity card other than a permanent identity card at such place, in such manner, and within such period, as he may require. 
(2) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any permanent identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1). 
(L.N. 178 of 1987)

### Registration of Persons Regulations 《人事登記規例》

4A. Inclusion of certain particulars and data with consent
(1) Without prejudice to regulation 5(1)(a), the Commissioner or any person acting pursuant to a permission given by the Commissioner may, for the purposes referred to in column 1 of Schedule 5 and with the consent of the applicant for an identity card or the person to whom an identity card relates—
(a) include in the identity card the information or particulars; and
(b) store in the chip embodied in the identity card the data, 
referred to in column 2 of Schedule 5 which are not information, particulars or data specified in regulation 4(1) or Schedule 1.
(2) If—
(a) the Commissioner or any person acting pursuant to a permission under subregulation (1) has stored any data in a chip embodied in an identity card under that subregulation with the consent of the person to whom the identity card relates; and
(b) the person to whom the identity card relates presents the identity card to the Commissioner or the person acting pursuant to such permission, as the case may be, and requests the removal of such data from the chip, 
the Commissioner or the person acting pursuant to such permission, as the case may be, shall as soon as practicable remove the data from the chip.
(3) A permission referred to in subregulation (1) may be—
(a) given by the Commissioner—
(i) to any person or any class of persons; or
(ii) generally or in a particular case, 
in such manner; and
(b) subject to such condition, 
as the Commissioner thinks fit.
(9 of 2003 s. 10)