Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:26:51 +0100


In article <10A0463C-5DD0-4A8E-852E-34B6BE861C07@batten.eu.org>, Ian 
Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
> And are there any classes of people who will  be entitled to a UK ID 
>card but are _not_ entitled to NHS treatment?

Depends if people with UK Passports and no right of abode are allowed an 
ID card [1]. And ex-pats aren't entitled to any more NHS treatment than 
a foreign tourist would be, I think - although all of the above might 
have an EHIC (nee e111) card that gives some limited treatment.

[1] Later. The Border Agency has the following things as proof of right 
of abode:

# a UK passport or an ID Card issued under the Identity Cards Act 2006 
describing them as a British citizen; or
# a UK passport or an ID Card issued under the Identity Cards Act 2006 
describing them as a British subject with the right of abode in the UK

So it seems likely there *is* a class of people *with* and ID card, but 
no right of abode ie:

* .... an ID Card issued under the Identity Cards Act 2006 describing 
them as a British subject AND NOT with the right of abode in the UK
-- 
Roland Perry