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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 30 March 2007 - onwards

32. Personal public service number amendments.

The Principal Act is amended -

(a) in section 262 -

(i) in subsection (3)(a), by inserting the following after subparagraph (x):

"(xa) certificate of death, where relevant;

(xb) a photograph of the person, other than in the case of a deceased person;

(xc) the person's signature, other than in the case of a deceased person;",

(ii) by inserting the following after subsection (3):

"(3A) An officer of the Minister may retain any document (including a passport, visa, identity card, driving licence, birth certificate or marriage certificate or any other document establishing a person's nationality or identity), given for any purpose under this Act, for such period as may be reasonable which period shall not in any case exceed 21 days.

(3B) Where a document is retained under subsection (3A) a receipt in the prescribed form shall be issued in respect of it to the person concerned.",

(iii) in subsection (6)(a), by inserting "in respect of that transaction" after "necessary",