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  Identity Cards Bill - Compulsory registration when applying for a Passport
  
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  <p>An important part of the proposed Identity Cards Bill roughly reads:</p>
  
  <blockquote>When someone applies for a designated document (eg a Passport), they <b>must</b> either apply to be entered into the National Identity Register, or prove they are already listed and update its contents.[1]</blockquote>
  
  <p>The majority of Parliament voted against a proposal to change the word <i>"must"</i> to <i>"may, if the applicant so chooses"</i>.</p>
  
  <p>This would have removed the compulsory element of registering for an ID card just to renew a passport, driving license, or other such <i>"designated document"</i>.</p>  
  
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  <li>[1] <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/049/06049.1-7.html#j004"> Clause 5(2)</a> of the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/049/06049.i-ii.html">Identity Cards Bill</a>.</li>
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