Hong Kong Regulations

REGISTRATION OF PERSONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 11

Duty to carry and produce identity card

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 71 of 1999 s. 3

(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 the left thumb-print, or, if this is not possible, such
other single fingerprint 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)