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May 23, 2004
S1(4) Personal reference numbers etc.
Personal reference numbers etc.
4 (1) The following may be recorded in an individual's entry in the Register.
(a) his National Identity Registration Number;
(b) the number of any ID card issued to him;
(c) any national insurance number allocated to him;
(d) the number of any immigration document relating to him;
(e) the number of any United Kingdom passport (within the meaning of
the Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77)) that has been issued to him;
(f) the number of any passport issued to him by or on behalf of the
authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or
by or on behalf of an international organisation;
(g) the number of any document that can be used by him (in some or all
circumstances) instead of a passport;
(h) the number of any identity card issued to him by the authorities of a
country or territory outside the United Kingdom;
(i) any reference number allocated to him by the Secretary of State in
connection with an application made by him for permission to enter
or to remain in the United Kingdom;
(j) the number of any work permit (within the meaning of the
Immigration Act 1971) relating to him;
(k) the number of any designated document which is held by him and is
a document the number of which does not fall within any of the
preceding sub-paragraphs; and
(l) the date of expiry or period of validity of a document the number of
which is recorded by virtue of this paragraph.
(2) In this paragraph "immigration document" means.
(a) a document used for confirming the right of a person under the
Community Treaties in respect of entry or residence in the United
Kingdom;
(b) a document which is given in exercise of immigration functions and
records information about leave granted to a person to enter or to
remain in the United Kingdom; or
(c) a registration card (within the meaning of section 26A of the
Immigration Act 1971);
and in paragraph (b) "immigration functions" means functions under the
Immigration Acts (within the meaning of the Asylum and Immigration
(Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 ).
Posted by wtwu at May 23, 2004 11:53 PM
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The wording of this section implies that the numbers of all previous and expired Passports etc. will end up bloating the National Information Register database. Why ?
This data will be a pointless duplication of the Passport Office databases. What possible use are these in identifying someone now ?
The National Insurance Number (NINO) should not be recorded either - it will simply lead to even more innacurate and mistyped National Insurance Numbers in circulation. This is not an Inland Revenue database it is a National Identity Register.
c.f. Richard Thomas the Information Commissioner, in his evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on 3rd of February 2004 ?
"For example, I would like to see it, if possible, designed into the face of the legislation that there should be only the absolute minimum information carried on the face of the card itself. I would be unhappy, for example, if national insurance numbers appeared on the face of the card. I would be unhappy if an address appeared on the face of the card."
Just exactly how is the correct National Insurance Number going to be inserted into the NIR ? This can only be done if and when the Inland Revenue sorts out the scandal of 85 million National Insurance Numbers for a population of only 60 million people. If they cannot do it, why should the NIR magically be able to do this during ID card enrollment ?
RECCOMENDATION:
Prohibit the recording of National Insurance Numbers and the past transaction history of old or expired Passports etc. on the NIR database or the ID card itself.
Posted by: wtwu at May 24, 2004 03:46 AM