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  Identity Cards Bill - statutory purpose
  
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  <p>The lords who were Content failed to remove the word "convenient" from paragraph 1(3)(a) of the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/049/06049.1-7.html#j001"> Identity Card Bill</a> where it says: 
  
  <p class="indent">The statutory purposes [of the National Identity Register] are to facilitate... (a) a <i>convenient</i> method for such individuals to prove registrable facts about themselves to others; and (b) ... [a] reliable method for registrable facts about such individuals to be ascertained or verified wherever that is necessary in the public interest.</p>
  
  
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