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(3) A delegation under subsection (1)(a) does not prevent the Director-General from exercising the power in question himself or herself.

(4) A delegation or authority granted under a provision which is repealed by section 24 and which was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been granted under this section.

Chapter 2

Population Register

Compilation and maintenance of population register

5. (1) The Director-General shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, in the prescribed manner compile and thereafter maintain a population register for the Republic.

(2) The particulars required for the compilation and maintenance of the population register shall be obtained by the Director-General in the prescribed manner from the information referred to in section 2.

Access to population register

6. Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall have access to the population register and no person shall record or amend any particulars in such register unless specifically authorised thereto by the Director-General.

Assignment of identity numbers

7. (1) The Director-General shall assign an identity number to every person whose particulars are included in the population register in terms of section 8.

(2) An identity number shall be compiled in the prescribed manner out of figures and shall, in addition to a serial, index and control number, consist of a reproduction, in figure codes, of the following particulars, and no other particulars whatsoever, of the person to whom it has been assigned, namely—

(a)

his or her date of birth and gender; and

(b)

whether or not he or she is a South African citizen.

Particulars to be included in population register

8. There shall in respect of any person referred to in section 3, be included in the population register the following relevant particulars available to the Director-General, namely—

(a)

his or her identity number referred to in section 7;

(b)

his or her surname, full forenames, gender, date of birth and the place or country where he or she was born;

(c)

if he or she has attained the age of 16 years, his or her ordinary place of residence and his or her postal address;

(d)

if he or she is a South African citizen but is not a citizen by birth or descent, the date of his or her naturalisation or registration as such a citizen, and, if he or she is an alien and was not born in the Republic, the date of his or her entry into the Republic, and the country of which he or she is a citizen;

(e)

the particulars of his or her marriage contained in the relevant marriage register or other documents relating to the contracting of his or her marriage, and such other particulars concerning his or her marital status as may be furnished to the Director-General;

(f)

a recent photograph of himself or herself, if he or she has attained the age of 16 years;

(g)

his or her fingerprints, if he or she has attained the age of 16 years;

(h)

particulars concerning passports and travel documents granted to him or her;

(i)

after his or her death, the required particulars furnished when notice of his or her death was given, and on permanent departure from the Republic, the date