Identification Act, 1997/2000-10-13



as amended by

Identification Amendment Act, No. 28 of 2000



Definitions

1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates—

“certificate” means a birth, death or marriage certificate referred to in section 13;

“Director-General” means the Director-General: Home Affairs;

“fingerprints” includes palmprints;

“identity card” means the identity card referred to in section 14;

“Minister” means the Minister of Home Affairs;

“ordinary place of residence”, with reference to any person, means the place where he or she normally lives and to which he or she returns regularly after any period of temporary absence;

“population register” means the population register referred to in section 5;

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulation;

“regulation” means a regulation made under section 22;

“temporary identity certificate” means a temporary identity certificate issued under section 16;

“this Act” includes the regulations.

 Transitional arrangements

25. (1) Until a date determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette the Director-General shall continue to issue the green, bar-coded identity documents in accordance with the Identification Act, 1986 (Act No. 72 of 1986), despite the repeal of that Act by section 24.

(2) Any green, bar-coded identity document issued in accordance with the Identification Act, 1986, shall remain valid until it is replaced by an identity card issued in terms of section 14 or until a date contemplated in subsection (4), whichever is the sooner.

(3) As from the date of commencement of the Identification Amendment Act, 2000, all forms of identity documents other than the green, bar-coded identity documents issued in accordance with the Identification Act, 1986, will cease to be valid.

(4) The Minister may by notice in the Gazette fix a date for the replacement of green, bar-coded identity documents referred to in subsection (2) and may make regulations regarding such replacement.

