s.9Issuance of Cayman Islands Identification Card in certain circumstances
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Section 9Part 2 — CAYMAN ISLANDS IDENTIFICATION CARD

Issuance of Cayman Islands Identification Card in certain circumstances

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Notwithstanding sections 6 to 8, where an applicant for a Cayman Islands Identification Card under section 5 —
is incapacitated; or
is in the care and custody of a public institution,
and cannot appear before a registering officer, the incapacitated person or institutionalised person or any person authorised to act on the behalf of the incapacitated person or institutionalised person shall, by an instrument in writing, inform the Registrar of the circumstances set out in paragraph (a) or (b), as applicable.
The Registrar, upon being informed of the circumstances set out in subsection (1) may instruct a registering officer —
to enrol the incapacitated person or institutionalised person under subsection (1) in the register; and
to facilitate the issuance of a Cayman Islands Identification Card to the incapacitated person or institutionalised person; or
to replace an identification card that is lost, stolen, damaged, destroyed, tampered with or defaced.
Where a registering officer has been instructed to visit an incapacitated or institutionalised person pursuant to subsection (2), the registering officer shall —
visit that person for the purpose of photographing that person and collecting the information necessary for effecting the registration and issuance of a Cayman Islands Identification Card to that person; and
for the purpose of the visit referred to in paragraph (a), take all the necessary materials, including a photograph of the person, to accurately obtain all the information required for registration.
For the purposes of this section —
"incapacitated person" means a person with a temporary or permanent impediment or impairment which is a mental or physical deficiency, disability or illness;
"institutionalised person" means a person in the care or custody of a public institution; and
"public institution" means any detention facility, prison, hospital, community residence or other public institution including institutions charged with the provision of physical, psychological, social or material assistance to persons.

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incapacitated personinstitutionalised personpublic institution

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