### Registration of Persons Ordinance 《人事登記條例》

7B. Requirement to apply for new identity cards
(1) All persons who are holders of identity cards issued before the specified date, or issued on or after that date as a result of an application made before that date, shall apply in accordance with regulations made under section 7 for identity cards at such places, in such sequence and within such periods as the Secretary for Security may direct by order published in the Gazette. (Amended 56 of 1989 s. 6; 9 of 2003 s. 5) 
(2) An order under subsection (1) may direct that applications for identity cards be made by any description or category of persons, whether by reference to their date of birth, sex, place or area of usual residence, identity card numbers, or by reference to any other matter. 
(3) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with subsection (1) in accordance with an order made thereunder, commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2. (Amended L.N. 25 of 1996) 
(4) A person who is absent from Hong Kong at the time when he is required by an order made under subsection (1) to apply for an identity card, shall not be regarded as failing to comply with subsection (1) provided he applies for an identity card within 30 days of his return to Hong Kong. 
(Replaced 32 of 1987 s. 10)

7C. Power to declare old identity cards invalid
(1) The Secretary for Security may by order published in the Gazette declare all identity cards issued before the specified date, or issued on or after that date as a result of an application made before that date, or such of those identity cards as he may specify by reference to their numbers or description or category of their holders, to be invalid. (Amended 9 of 2003 s. 6)
(2) An order under subsection (1) may specify a description or category of holders by reference to their date of birth, sex, place or area of usual residence, identity card numbers, or by reference to any other matter. 
(Replaced 32 of 1987 s. 11)

### Registration of Persons Ordinance 《人事登記條例》

7D. Replacement of identity card issued after 1 July 1987 by a permanent identity card
Any person—
(a) who is the holder of an identity card (other than a permanent identity card) issued after 1 July 1987; and (Amended 56 of 1989 s. 7) 
(b) who at any time after the issue of such card becomes a Hong Kong permanent resident enjoying the right of abode in Hong Kong, 
may apply in accordance with regulations made under section 7 for a permanent identity card to be issued to him in place of his identity card. 
(Added 32 of 1987 s. 11)

9. Restriction on use of particulars and record kept on particulars
Subject to section 11—
(a) particulars furnished to a registration officer under this Ordinance may be used for and only for the purpose of enabling the Commissioner to issue identity cards and to keep records on such particulars;
(b) the records referred to in paragraph (a) may be used for and only for the following purposes—
(i) enabling verification of identity of individuals by public officers in discharge of their official duties;
(ii) enabling verification of identity of individuals for any other lawful purposes; or
(iii) such purposes as may be authorized, permitted or required by or under any Ordinance.
(Added 9 of 2003 s. 7)

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)

### Registration of Persons Ordinance 《人事登記條例》

11. Duty not to disclose photographs, fingerprints and particulars
Subject to section 10, a registration officer shall not—
(a) produce for inspection, or supply a copy of, the photograph of a person registered under the provisions of the Registration of Persons Regulations (Cap. 177 sub. leg. A) or his fingerprint; or
(b) disclose or supply a copy of the records kept by the Commissioner on particulars furnished to a registration officer under this Ordinance, 
except and unless with the written permission of the Chief Secretary for Administration which—
(c) may refer to a person or class or category of persons by name, office or description;
(d) may contain such terms and conditions as the Chief Secretary for Administration may deem fit to impose; and
(e) must state the reason for giving such permission.
(Added 9 of 2003 s. 7)

12. Prohibition of unauthorized handling of particulars
Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, gains access to, stores, uses, discloses, erases, cancels or alters any record kept by the Commissioner on particulars furnished to a registration officer under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Added 9 of 2003 s. 7)

### Carrying of Identity Cards (Frontier Closed Area and Mai Po Bird Sanctuary) Order 《攜帶身分證(邊境禁區及米埔鳥類保護區)令》

1. Citation
This order may be cited as the Carrying of Identity Cards (Frontier Closed Area and Mai Po Bird Sanctuary) Order.

2. Duty to carry identity card
Every person who is the holder of an identity card shall carry on his person his identity card when entering or leaving, or while in—
(a) the area declared to be a closed area by the Frontier Closed Area Order (Cap. 245 sub. leg. A); or (E.R. 3 of 2019)
(b) the area commonly known as the Mai Po Bird Sanctuary and more particularly described in Area B in Schedule 6 to the Wild Animals Protection Ordinance (Cap. 170). (77 of 1996 s. 21) 

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

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Registration of Persons Regulations.

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

3. Duty to register and apply for an identity card
(1) Every person who is not an exempt person or an excluded person, or is not the holder of a permanent identity card that was issued on an application from outside Hong Kong and who is required by section 3(2) of the Ordinance to apply to be registered, must report to a registration officer, apply to be registered and apply for an identity card— (L.N. 382 of 1989) 
(a) within 30 days of his entering Hong Kong; or 
(b) if he is already in Hong Kong when he becomes required by the Ordinance or these regulations to be registered, within 30 days of the date when he is so required, 
whichever is the sooner. 
(2) 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)