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Identity Cards Bill

I do not think so because the Bill deals first with the entitlement and then with this clause. The prescribed cases will cover the example that I have given. I tried to identify the sort of things that will fall within the exemption. I cannot give your Lordships chapter and verse, but those examples could properly fall within this category. Previous residents returning, and those who work in the UK but do not reside here, are all outside the entitlement to such a card, but they could be prescribed. Provided that they were prescribed, the Secretary of State could then exercise his discretion and give them a card. That is the way it would work.