Identification card

Definition and stakes

Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa,  Identification Act, 1997 (1997)

“ When any person has applied for an identity card, or has for official purposes lodged his or her identity card with the Director-General, the Director-General may on application issue to the person concerned whose particulars are included in the population register in terms of section 8, a temporary identity certificate in the prescribed form and manner, which, for the period and on the conditions mentioned therein, shall for the purpose of this Act be regarded as his or her identity card. ”
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Portrait of Potter Stewart Potter Stewart,  United States v. Campos-Serrano…

“ The Alien Registration Act of 1940 required that an alien present one of three special documents-a visa, a re-entry permit, or a border-crossing identification card-in order to come into the United States. 54 Stat. 673.↑ The 1952 INS regulation provided that the alien registration receipt card could be used as a permissible substitute for a visa of a re-entry permit in effecting a re-entry into this country from a contiguous country. ”
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Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004…

“ Date for conformance.—The Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish a date after which no driver's license or personal identification card shall be accepted by a Federal agency for any official purpose unless such driver's license or personal identification card conforms to the minimum standards established under paragraph (2) . ”
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