Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

[Matthew Pemble]

Roland Perry wrote:
>> It doesn't quite follow - there are (were?) definitely classes of 
>> people with a UK passport describing them as a British subject AND 
>> NOT with the right of abode - Hong Kong Chinese prior to the 
>> handover, for example. I am not sure that this class of people will 
>> be automatically entitled (or required) to have an ID card.
>
> There must be some, otherwise the earlier rule would have just stated:
>
> "... an ID Card issued under the Identity Cards Act 2006 describing 
> them as a British subject"
>
> on the hypothetical grounds that unless they had right of abode they 
> would never have received an ID card.
There is an assumption, in your argument, of competence in the drafting 
of statute law that may not be rationally justified :)

Matthew