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May 23, 2004
Contents
Draft Identity Cards Bill
CONTENTS
Registration
1 The National Identity Register
2 Individuals entered in Register
3 Information recorded in Register
4 Designation of documents for purposes of registration etc.
5 Applications relating to entries in Register
6 Power of Secretary of State to require registration
7 Procedure for orders under s. 6
ID cards
8 Issue etc. of ID cards
9 Renewal of ID cards for those compulsorily registered
10 Functions of persons issuing designated documents
Maintaining accuracy of Register etc.
11 Power to require information for validating Register
12 Notification of changes affecting accuracy of Register
13 Invalidity and surrender of ID cards
Disclosures from Register with consent
14 Disclosures with consent of registered individual
Required identity checks
15 Power to make public services conditional on identity checks
16 Power to provide for checks on the Register
17 Procedure for regulations under ss. 15 and 16
18 Regulations about identity checks
19 Prohibition on requirements to produce identity cards
Other disclosures from Register
20 Disclosures without consent of registered individual
21 Supplemental provisions for s. 20
22 Disclosures for the purpose of correcting false information
23 Power to authorise other disclosures without consent
24 Rules for making disclosures without consent
National Identity Scheme Commissioner
25 Appointment of Commissioner
26 Reports by Commissioner
Offences
27 Possession of false identity documents etc.
28 Identity documents for the purposes of s. 27
29 Unauthorised disclosure of information
30 Providing false information
31 Tampering with Register
32 Consequential amendments relating to offences
Civil penalties
33 Imposition of civil penalties
34 Objection to penalty
35 Appeals against penalties
36 Code of practice on penalties
Supplemental
37 Fees etc.
38 Orders and regulations
39 Expenses of Secretary of State
40 General interpretation
41 Short title, repeals, commencement and extent
Schedule 1 . Information that may be recorded in Register
Schedule 2 . Repeals
DRAFT
OF A
B I L L
TO
Make provision for a national scheme of registration of individuals and for the
issue of cards capable of being used for identifying registered individuals; and
for connected purposes.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen.s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:.
Posted by wtwu at May 23, 2004 08:32 PM
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Comments
The Draft Bill is incorrectly (or insufficiently) named!
Simply reading the contents page makes it quite obvious that the bulk of the legislation is to do with the National Identity Register, and powers relating to it.
An ID card scheme does not NECESSARILY - or logically - require the implementation of a (singular) database such as the proposed National Identity Register but, as it seems the Home Office has either failed to consider or has rejected other approaches, this particular scheme should be clearly identified for what it is.
RECCOMMENDATIONS:
The title of the Draft Bill should be changed to "Draft National Identity Register and ID Cards Bill".
N.B. I note that the Home Office's only significant response to the previous consultation exercise was to rename 'entitlement cards', 'identity cards' - because this is what the public saw them as anyway! Many people still do not naturally assume that ID cards will involve them having their details kept on a huge database - I have met many who, though initially quite positive about ID cards, are shocked and against such a scheme when they discover it will involve a NIR.
To fail to mention this in the title of the Bill is disingenuous at best, deceptive at worst. Either way this was a deliberate act of misdirection, clearly intended to give the Draft Bill as soft a ride in the court of public opinion and the media as possible.
Posted by: lankyphil at May 27, 2004 12:45 PM
Didn't the Sir Humphrey Appleby character in the TV satire "Yes, Minister" say something to the effect of disposing of athe difficult bits of legislation in the title ?
Posted by: wtwu at May 30, 2004 08:12 PM
Yet Another Comment Test
Posted by: wtwu at December 14, 2004 02:18 PM