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Code of Practice on the Identity Card Number and other Personal Identifiers

2.3.4 without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 2.3.3, for the following purposes:
     
  2.3.4.1 to be inserted in a document executed or to be executed by the holder of the identity card, which document is intended to establish or to evidence any legal or equitable right or interest or any legal liability on the part of any person, other than any right, interest or liability of a transient nature or which is trivial in the circumstances;
     
  Note: A common example would be the execution by an individual of a contract or an assignment of real property. As a counter-example, individuals who sign up in a signature campaign should not also be asked to put down their ID card numbers, as the transaction is intended not to require any present or future identification of the individual, nor involve any right, interest or liability on his part.
     
  2.3.4.2 as the means for the future identification of the holder of the identity card where such holder is allowed access to premises or use of equipment which the holder is not otherwise entitled to, in circumstances where the monitoring of the activities of the holder after gaining such access or use is not practicable;
     
  Note: A common example would be the entering of ID card numbers of visitors in a log-book located at the entrance of a government, commercial or residential building, subject to other alternatives for visitors to identify themselves as given in paragraphs 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 above.
     
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  2.3.4.3 as a condition for giving the holder of the identity card custody or control of property belonging to another person, not being property of no value or of a value which is trivial in the circumstances.
     
  Note: A common example would be car-rental. A counter-example would be the renting of a beach umbrella, the value of which would obviously be too trivial to justify the collection of the ID card number of the customer.

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