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

11. Duty to carry and produce identity card
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, require that every person, or every person of such class or such description as may be specified in the order, shall carry his identity card when in such area or place, on such occasion, for such purpose or in such circumstance as may be specified in the order. (L.N. 176 of 1979; 71 of 1999 s. 3) 
(2) During the currency of an order made under subregulation (1) any person or member of a class of persons authorized for the purpose by the Commissioner of Police, any police officer or member of the Immigration Service, in uniform or on production of his authority if required, may require any person to whom the order relates to produce his identity card on demand for inspection. (L.N. 176 of 1979) 
(2A) Any person who is required by an order made under this regulation to carry his identity card and who is required under this regulation to produce his identity card on demand and fails to do so commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 1 year. (L.N. 176 of 1979; L.N. 301 of 1980; L.N. 25 of 1996) 
(3) For the purposes of identification any police officer or person or persons so authorized may, during the currency of an order made under subregulation (1), at any time take 2 fingerprints and written signature (if such person is able to write) of any person who he believes to be of 11 years of age or over and any person whose fingerprint and written signature are required under this regulation shall submit to all such steps as may be reasonably necessary for the taking thereof. (L.N. 158 of 1973; 9 of 2003 s. 12)

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

11A. Power to verify identity by fingerprint match
(1) If—
(a) a person produces his identity card to a police officer or a member of the Immigration Service in compliance with a requirement made under any Ordinance; and
(b) the officer or member has reason to believe that the identity card is not issued under the Ordinance to the person, 
the officer or member may, by using a portable identity card reader—
(c) view the information specified in Schedule 1 reproduced from the data stored in the chip embodied in the identity card;
(d) scan the person’s thumb-print or other fingerprint; and
(e) match the same with the template referred to in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 and stored in the chip embodied in an identity card.
(2) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses to allow a police officer or a member of the Immigration Service to view any information or scan any fingerprint under subregulation (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 2.
(9 of 2003 s. 13)

11B. Approval of portable identity card reader
The Commissioner may by notice published in the Gazette approve types of instruments as portable identity card reader for the purpose of regulation 11A.
(9 of 2003 s. 13)

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

13. Duty to notify loss, etc., of identity card
(1) If an identity card has been lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced, the person to whom it relates shall—
(a) so report to a registration officer within 14 days of such loss, destruction, damage or defacement or, if he is outside Hong Kong at the time of such loss, destruction, damage or defacement, within 14 days of his return to Hong Kong; (L.N. 382 of 1989) 
(b) in the case of such damage or defacement, surrender that damaged or defaced card to the registration officer within that period; and 
(c) apply for a replacement identity card in such manner as the registration officer may require. (L.N. 178 of 1987) 
(2) A registration officer may— (L.N. 178 of 1987) 
(a) after production of such evidence, under oath or otherwise as he may require; and 
(aa) (Repealed L.N. 178 of 1987) (b) after such investigation as he may consider necessary; and 
(ba) (Repealed L.N. 178 of 1987) 
(c) upon such conditions as he may impose; and 
(d) upon payment to him of the appropriate fee (if any) prescribed in Schedule 2, (G.N.A. 55 of 1961) 
issue to that person a replacement identity card in the place of the one lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced. (L.N. 204 of 1979; L.N. 178 of 1987)
(3) 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 issue to the applicant a permanent identity card. (L.N. 178 of 1987) 
(4) It shall be lawful for a registration officer to destroy any damaged or defaced identity card surrendered to him under subregulation (1). (L.N. 178 of 1987)

13A. Furnishing false particulars of loss etc. of identity card
Any person who makes any statement or declaration or furnishes any particulars or evidence to a registration officer alleging that an identity card has been lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced knowing that such statement, declaration or particulars or evidence is false in any material particular commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years. 
(L.N. 86 of 1983; L.N. 25 of 1996)