Diamonds Act, 1986
R 385
Identification Act, 1997 (Act No. 68 of 1997)RegulationsIdentification Regulations, 19983. Identity number |
The identity number referred to in section 7 shall consist of 13 digits, which shall be compiled as follows:
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
of which—
| (a) | the first six digits shall represent the date of birth of the person as follows: Digits 1 and 2, the year of birth; digits 3 and 4 the month of birth; and digits 5 and 6, the day of birth; |
| (b) | digit 7 shall indicate the gender of the person, namely the serial numbers 0 to which are allocated to female person and serial numbers 5 to 9 which are allocated to male persons; |
| (c) | digits 8 to 10, inclusive, shall represent a serial number; |
| (d) | digit 11 shall represent the citizen of the person as follows: |
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S A Citizen |
Non-SA Citizen |
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0 |
1 |
| (e) | digit 12 shall represent the index number 8, under which the person’s particulars have been included in the population register provided that in cases where the unique number allocated by the computer automatically for each day of each year has been exhausted, the 12th digit would be number 9; and |
[Regulation 3(3) substituted by regulation 2 of Notice No. R.275 of GG21015, dated 1 April 2000]
| (f) | digit 13 shall be a control figure determined by the computer. |
