Replacement of lost, inaccurate, etc. identification cards

(1) Where an identification card which has been issued to any (a) has been lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced; or (b) is discovered to contain information given by such person which is inaccurate or incorrect, the alien may apply to the registering officer of the town in which he resides for the replacement of such identification card, and such registering officer, if he is satisfied that the application is a bona fide one, shall issue to such person a replacement identification card. (2) An application under subregulation (1) shall be in Form 11 and shall be accompanied by the fee specified in subregulation (9). (3) The registering officer shall not issue a replacement identification card until, in the case of a card– (a) which is discovered to contain inaccurate or incorrect information; or (b) which has become mutilated or defaced, such card has been delivered to him for destruction. (4) The registering officer for the town in which the applicant resides at the time of his application for a replacement identification card shall– (a) endorse thereon a note to the effect that such card is a replacement identification card; and 65 (b) if he is satisfied that the contents thereof are correct, either sign such card himself or cause it to be signed by the registering officer for the time being assigned to that division. (5) Subject to subregulation (6) a replacement identification card shall contain such particulars as were recorded on the identification card of the person to whom it relates. (6) When a registering officer issues a replacement identification card he may– (a) insert therein the print of a photograph different from that which was affixed to the identification card which it replaces if he is satisfied that it is a sufficiently good likeness of the person to whom it relates; and (b) in a case where it is discovered that an identification card contains information which is inaccurate or incorrect, insert such alteration on the replacement identification card as, after an inquiry made for the purpose, he may consider necessary and proper, provided that where the registering officer accepts a photograph different from that which was on the identification card that is being replaced, he shall cause copies of that photograph to be attached to the registration record card and to the duplicate registration record card maintained by the Chief (7) Whenever a registering officer issues a replacement identification card, he shall make or cause to be made an entry in the space allocated for remarks on the appropriate registration record card showing the date of the issue of such card and shall– (a) notify the Chief Elections Officer of the issue of such card and the Chief Elections Officer shall cause the necessary entries to be made in the duplicate of the registration record card of such person; and (b) transmit, in cases the original identification card is required by these Regulations to be surrendered, the surrendered identification card to the Chief Elections (8) A registering officer, on being satisfied as to the death of any alien registered in his division to whom an identification card was issued under these Regulations shall as soon as practicable after being so satisfied, require the personal representative of such person or any person in possession of the same to surrender to him the identification card that was issued to such person, if the registering officer is satisfied that it is within the power of any such person so to do. (9) There shall be payable for every replacement identification card– (a) in the case of a first issue, five dollars; (b) in the case of any further issue, ten dollars; but the Chief Elections Officer may, except where a replacement identification card is issued as a result of incorrect or inaccurate information given by the person to whom such card relates, on the ground of poverty or for other good cause, remit or refund the said fee or any part thereof.