The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2009

Made: 15th December 2009

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 44(3) and (4) of the Identity Cards Act 2006[^f00001], makes the following Order:

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Identity Cards Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2009.

Commencement

2

• (1) Section 2(1) and (2), and section 5(1)(b), of the Identity Cards Act 2006 shall come into force on 4thJanuary 2010 in relation to any person to whom paragraph (2) applies, except to the extent that those provisions are already in force in respect of such persons.

• (2) This paragraph applies to a British citizen who –

• (a) holds, or has at any time on or after 1st January 2009 held, a United Kingdom passport (within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971[^f00002]) which provides evidence of his British citizenship; and

• (b) either –

• (i) the address of his place of residence is located in an area in England to which one of the postcodes listed in the Schedule corresponds; or

• (ii) is employed and his place of work is permanently or temporarily at premises located in an area in England to which one of the postcodes listed in the Schedule corresponds.

SCHEDULE — Postcodes corresponding to a place of residence, and a place of work

• BB1, BB2, BB3, BB4, BB5, BB6, BB7, BB8, BB9, BB10, BB11, BB12, BB18, BB94;

• BD23;

• CA1, CA2, CA3, CA4, CA5, CA6, CA7, CA8, CA9, CA10, CA11, CA12, CA13, CA14, CA15, CA16, CA17, CA18, CA19, CA20, CA21, CA22, CA23, CA24, CA25, CA26, CA27, CA28, CA95, CA99;

• CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, CH5, CH41, CH42, CH43, CH44, CH45, CH46, CH47, CH48, CH49, CH60, CH61, CH62, CH63, CH64, CH65, CH66, CH70, CH88, CH99;

• CW1, CW2, CW3, CW4, CW5, CW6, CW7, CW8, CW9, CW10, CW11, CW12, CW98;

• DG16;

• DL12;

• FY0, FY1, FY2, FY3, FY4, FY5, FY6, FY7, FY8;

• L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, L9, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14, L15, L16, L17, L18, L19, L20, L21, L22, L23, L24, L25, L26, L27, L28, L29, L30, L31, L32, L33, L34, L35, L36, L37, L38, L39, L40, L67, L68, L69, L70, L71, L72, L74, L75;

• LA1, LA2, LA3, LA4, LA5, LA6, LA7, LA8, LA9, LA10, LA11, LA12, LA13, LA14, LA15, LA16, LA17, LA18, LA19, LA20, LA21, LA22, LA23;

• LL12, LL13;

• OL13, OL14, OL95;

• PR0, PR1, PR2, PR3, PR4, PR5, PR6, PR7, PR8, PR9, PR11, PR25, PR26;

• SK9, SK10, SK11, SK12, SK13, SK22, SK23;

• ST7;

• SY13, SY14;

• TD9;

• WA1, WA2, WA4, WA5, WA6, WA7, WA8, WA9, WA10, WA11, WA12, WA16, WA55, WA88;

• WN8.

Signed

Meg Hillier — Parliamentary Under‑Secretary of State — 15th December 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force section 2(1) and (2), and section 5(1)(b), of the Identity Cards Act2006 on 4th January 2010 in relation to any person to whom paragraph(2) of article 2 applies, except to the extent that those provisions are already in force in respect of such persons by virtue of commencement orders made before the date of this Order. These provisions relate to entries being made in the National Identity Register for persons who are entitled to be registered in that Register and who apply for an entry to be made, and how such an application may be made.

Article 2 (2) applies to a British citizen who holds, or who has held at any time on or after 1stJanuary2009, a United Kingdom passport which shows he has such citizenship, and either the address of his place of residence is located in an area in England to which one of the postcodes listed in the Schedule corresponds, or is employed and his place of work is permanently or temporarily at premises located in an area in England to which one of the postcodes listed in the Schedule corresponds.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c. 15.

[^f00002]: 1971 c. 77.