National Registration Rules, 1975

The National Registration Rules, 1975

REGULATION 1 OF 1989

NOTIFICATION

Notification S.R.O. 177 (1)/75.-- ln exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973), the Federal Government is pleased to make the following rules, namely;

1. Short title and commencement.- These rules may be called the National Registration Rules, 1975.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions. -- ln these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:---

(a) ‘Act’ means the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973);

(b) ‘Schedule’ means Schedule to these rules;

(c) ‘Section’ means section of the Act.

3. Application forms and authorities to whom these are to be submitted.- (1) An application for registration under sub-section (2) of section 4 shall be in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule and shall be made to any of the following authorities, namely:---

(a) the District Registrar;

[(b) Registration counters established for the purpose; and]

(c) the Mobile Team of the Registration Organization;

(2) An application for:---

(a) [intimating the birth of a child ]: Omitted by S.R.O. 67 (1)/79.

(b) Surrendering an identity card in pursuance of section, 7, [***];

(c) obtaining a duplicate copy of an identity card; and

(d) getting any change incorporated in identity card, shall be in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule and shall be made to the authority to whom the application under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 4 or, as the case may be, clause (b) of that sub-section was originally submitted.

(3) Application under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2) of a citizen outside Pakistan shall be forwarded to the Registrar General, Registration Organization, Islamabad, through the Pakistan Mission in the country where the applicant resides.

(4) An application under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 4 shall be made in duplicate and one copy thereof shall be returned to the applicant duly signed by the receiving authority.

[3-A. Declarations to be made by certain persons.- Every person who has, at any time before commencement of this rule, made an application for registration under rule-section (2) of section 4, including any such person to whom an identity card has already been issued, shall, if he had mentioned in such application his religion to be Islam or himself to be a Muslim, -and has not made such declaration, field with the authority to whom such application was made a declaration in form R.G.I./(A) set out in the Schedule.]

4. Time limits for certain applications.-[(1) Application for registration of a newly born child shall be made by his parent or guardian within sixty days of the birth of the child].

(2) Application for obtaining a duplicate copy of an identity card shall be made within thirty days of the less or destruction of the original identity card.

(3) Application for getting may change incorporated in an identity card may be made at any time.

(4) Application for the registration of death of a citizen under eighteen years of age shall be made by his parents or guardian within period of sixty days of the occurrence of his death.

5. Persons ‘who may verify the application form.- The following persons are authorised to verify or attest the application forms, namely:---

(a) members of the Senate, the National Assembly, a Provincial Assembly and a local body;

(b) Gazetted officers;

(c) officers of civil Armed Force and Armed Force;

(d) medical practitioners in the service of Government;

(e) Police officers of the rank of S.H.O. and above;

(f) officers of the levy;

(g) officers of grade 16 and the above of the Post office Department, and, in areas in which is on such officer, the branch postmasters, and sub-postmaster;

(h) Headmasters or headmistresses of Government schools;

(i) Principals and Lecturers of Government Colleges;

(j) Numberdars; and

(k) officers of the Revenue Department of the rank of Naib-Tehsildar and above.

(2) In case the person verifying or attesting an application is illiterate, he shall verify or attest the application by putting his left hand thumb-impression which shall be countersigned by the supervisor of Mobile Team of the Registration Organization or by any of the persons authorised under sub-rule (1) who is not illiterate.

(3) A person verifying or attesting an application shall write or cause to be written his full name legibly under this signature or thumb-impression and shall also put his office stamp under it.

(4) A person shall verify or attest the application only if he knows the applicant personally or through some one else and the applicant belongs to the area where such person lives or works.

[5-A. Officer and authority who shall births and deaths.-The officer or authority to whom, or to which, births and deaths are required to be reported under any law relating to registration of births and deaths and the death of a citizen who has not attained the age of eighteen years, as the District Registrar.]

6. Submission of photograph by the applicant.-(l) Every male applicant who has attained the age of eighteen years shall submit who carries of his recent photograph, of the size ‘2x1-1/2’ alongwith his application.

(2) A female applicant who attained the age eighteen years may submit who copies for her recent photograph of the size ‘2x1-1/2’ alongwith her application. A female applicant who does not take to submit photograph shall put her hand thumb-impression in the space provided for the photograph in the application form.

(3) Citizens in the Armed Force, Civil Armed Forces, Civil Police or Federal Security Forces shall submit their photographs without the service uniform.

(4) The photographs shall be in black and white.

7. Photograph or thumb-impression on the identity card.--[(1) An identity card shall be in the form set out in the Schedule and save as provided in sub-rule (2) shall bear a photograph of the holder].

(2) In the case of female applicant who does not submit her photograph, her right thumb-impression shall be put on the identity card in the place provided for the photograph.

8. Treatment of certain persons under these rules. (1) An enmesh shall be treated as male an identity card shall be issued accordingly.

(2) An applicant whose hands are amputated shall put the impression of his left foot on the application form and, if the left foot toe is also amputated, the impression of the right toe shall be put on the application form.

9. Fee for the issue of duplicate identity card or for making any changes in the card.-(1) A fee of five rupees shall be payable by an applicant for obtaining a duplicate copy of the identity card, in case his original card has been lost or destroyed either by deposit in the local treasury under the Federal head of account ‘XLVI Miscellaneous Fees, Fines’ or through special adhesive stamp, if available from the post offices.

(2) If an identity card is to be replaced due to a mistake of the post office or of the Registration Organization no fee for issuing a duplicate copy of the identity card who applies for the in corporation of any change in his identity card shall pay a fee of five rupees in accordance with sub-rule (1).

10. Form of complaint to Magistrate.- A compliant to a Magistrate for trial for cases of violation of the provisions of the Act shall be made by the District Registrar in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule; and
For the schedule the following shall be substituted.

SCHEDULE
[See rule 3)

R.Q. 5 No ID DRO…………….

Office of the District Registrar

Registration Organization

From Dated.

District Registrar,

District Registration office

To

The Magistrate 1st Class

Subject- Registration of case under the National Registration Act, 1973

Sir,

The following person has committed an offence which is punishable under the provisions of section 11 of the National Registration Act, 1973.

Name and full address of the person who has committed the offence Details of offence

2. Under the powers delegated to me under section 12 of the above Act, the case is referred to your Court. It is requested that the case may kindly be registered and tried summarily under the powers of section 13 of the laid Act.

NOTIFICATION

EXPORT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTES BY TRAVELERS

[8th October, 1985]

1. Attention of Authorised Dealers is invited to para. 8, Chapter XVIII, page 120 of the Exchange Control Manual, 5th Edition, 1982 which, inter alia, provides that Pakistan nationals who are working or settled abroad or members of their family staying with them who come to Pakistan on temporary visit, are allowed to take out within them within 3 months from the date of their arrival in Pakistan, the unspent balance of foreign exchange (including foreign currency notes upto the value of US $ 50/- person or equivalent thereof in other currencies) brought in by them at the time of their entry into Pakistan. It has now been decided that the limit of US $ 50/- may be raised to US $ 500/-per person subject to a maximum of US $ 2,000/- per family or equivalent thereof in other currencies;

2. !t has also been decided to extend the period upto which foreign exchange brought in from abroad by Pakistan nationals residing abroad can be retained, from three months to one year vide Government of Pakistan Notification No. S.R. 805(1 )/85, dated the 20th August, 1985.

3. Foreign nationals are allowed to retain foreign exchange brought by them into Pakistan upto six months. A foreign national leaving Pakistan within six months can take out the unspent balance of foreign exchange brought by him. In the case of foreign currency notes, not declared to the customs at the time of arrival, it has been decided that the facility may be limited to US $ 500/- per person subject to a maximum of US $ 2,000/- per family.

4. Paragraph 8 of Chapter XVIII of the Exchange Control Manual may, accordingly, be revised as under:---

‘8. Export of Foreign Currency Notes and Foreign Exchange Instruments by Travelers.-Persons going to Afghanistan can take with the Afghan currency notes and coins without limit. In the case of other countries, persons can carry with them foreign currency notes and coins only to the extent these are issued by the Authorised Dealers and endorsed on their passports. Foreign nationals are permitted to take out with them within six months from the date of their arrival in Pakistan the unspent balance of foreign exchange that was brought in by them at the time of their entry into Pakistan, without the approval of the State Bank. Where currency declaration form is not produced by a foreign national at the time of his departure, he can take out foreign currency notes upto the value of US $ 500/-per person subject to a maximum of US $ 2,000/- per family or equivalent thereof in other currencies. Similarly Pakistan nationals who are working or are settled abroad or members of their family staying with them, who come to Pakistan on temporary visits are allowed to take out with them within one year from the date of their arrived in Pakistan the unspent balance of foreign exchange (including foreign currency notes upto the value of US $ 500/- per person subject to a maximum of US $ 2,000/- per family or equivalent thereof in other currencies) brought in by them at the time of their entry into Pakistan without production of currency declaration form. Where currency declaration form is produced, the returning Pakistan can take back foreign currency notes even in excess of US $ 500/- per person of equivalent thereof in other currencies.’

5. A copy of the Government’s Notification No. S.R.O. 805(1)/85, dated the 20th August, 1985 referred to above is enclosed for your record. A copy of the Government Notification No. S.R.O. 1016 (1)79, dated the 17th October, 1979 as amended vide Government Notification No. S.R.O. 805(1)/85, dated the 20th August, 1985 is also enclosed. The existing APP: 11/8 of the Exchange Control Manual, 5th Edition, 1982 may be replaced by the enclosed amended Notification.

REGULATION 1 OF 1989

NATIONAL REGISTRATION (APPLICATION TO THE FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREAS) REGULATION, 1989

A Regulation to apply the National Registration Act, 1973, to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 31st January, 1989]

No. F. 1(4)-F.III/88, dated 31-1-1989. The following Regulation made by the President is hereby published for general information:---

Whereas it is expedient to apply the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973), to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (5) of Article 247 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the President is pleased to make the following Regulation:---

1. Short title, extent and commencement.-(l) This Regulation may be called the National Registration (Application to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Regulation, 1989.

(2) It extends to the whole of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Application of the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973). to the -Federally Administered Tribal Areas.-The National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973), as in force in the North-West Frontier Province immediately before the commencement of this Regulation and, so far as may be, all rules, notifications and orders which may have been, or may be made or issued thereunder shall apply to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.