ID card rollout begins

[Charles Lindsey]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:34:32 +0100, Ian Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> wrote:

>
> On 25 Sep 08, at 1003, Peter Tomlinson wrote:
>
>> Igor Mozolevsky wrote:

>> My response was to the last question. Officials will have some kind
>> of as yet unspecified "readers", but maybe not portable ones.
>
> Immigration and Asylum Act, 1996, section 8 uses the words ``appeared
> to him to relate to the employee''.  Several summaries on government
> websites, such as this use wording like ``Employers should ensure that
> the document presented appears to be the original, appears to relate
> to the applicant ...

I would imagine that "appearing to relate" will in future include checking  
the biometrics.

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