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The Identity Cards Act 2006 (c 15) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that has since been repealed. It created national identity cards, a personal identification document and European Union travel document, linked to a database known as the National Identity Register (NIR), which has since been destroyed. The introduction of the scheme was much debated, and various degrees of concern about the scheme were expressed by human rights lawyers, activists, security professionals and IT experts, as well as politicians. Many of the concerns focused on the databases underlying the identity cards rather than the cards themselves. The Act specified fifty categories of information that the National Identity Register could hold on each citizen,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Identity Cards Act 2006 (c. 15) )〕 including up to 10 fingerprints, digitised facial scan and iris scan, current and past UK and overseas places of residence of all residents of the UK throughout their lives and indexes to other Government databases (including National Insurance Number) – which would allow them to be connected. The legislation on this resident register also said that any further information could be added.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Identity Cards Act 2006 (c. 15) )〕 The legislation further said that those renewing or applying for passports must be entered on to the NIR. It was expected that this would happen soon after the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), which was formerly the UK Passport Service, started interviewing passport applicants to verify their identity.〔 〕 The Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition formed after the 2010 general election announced that the ID card scheme would be scrapped.〔(Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement ), Conservative Party, Published 12 May 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010〕〔(Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement ), Liberal Democrats, Published 12 May 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010〕 The Identity Cards Act was repealed by the Identity Documents Act 2010 on 21 January 2011, and the cards were invalidated with no refunds to purchasers. Foreign nationals from outside the European Union, however, continue to require an ID card for use as a biometric residence permit under the provisions of the UK Borders Act 2007 and the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009.〔(Comment: ID cards by the backdoor? ) politics.co.uk, published 6 June 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2010]〕〔(Cancellation of identity cards: FAQs ) Immigration and Passport Service〕 Only workers in certain high-security professions, such as airport workers, were required to have an identity card in 2009, and this general lack of compulsory ID remains the case today. Therefore, driving licences, particularly the photocard driving licence introduced in 1998, along with passports, are now the most widely used ID documents in the United Kingdom. Given many people do not carry their passports in public without advance knowledge that they are going to need them, this leaves driving licences as the only valid form of ID to be presented, if requested by an authority for a legitimately-given reason. In everyday situations most authorities, such as the police, do not make spot checks of identification for individuals, although they may do in instances of arrest. Some banks will accept a provisional driving licence only from young people, the upper age limit for which varies from bank to bank, while others will accept it from all ages.〔http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/customer-support/banking-made-easy/help-us-identify-you〕〔https://www.halifax.co.uk/SecurityandPrivacy/pdf/personal-information-and-identity.pdf〕〔http://www.natwest.com/personal/current-accounts/g2/id-required.ashx〕 ==Development== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Identity Cards Act 2006」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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