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Identity Cards Bill

moved Amendment No. 62B: Page 12, line 1, leave out from ““issued”” to end of line 2. The noble Baroness said: My Lords, this gets a little confusing. It is all very well to assist the House by withdrawing amendments, but it then gets confusing as to which ones are to be moved. Clause 13 concerns the invalidity and surrender of ID cards. Subsection (3), which would be amended by the amendment, provides that if someone is in possession of an ID card that is not his own and for which he does not have the authority of either the individual who is the subject of the card or of the Secretary of State, he must surrender it to the Secretary of State. My amendment would remove the authority of the Secretary of State to give someone the right to have another person’s ID card in his possession. I understand that the Secretary of State will want to give permission to those who are manufacturing cards to have them in their possession. Or, if this is such a secure matter that the Government do not want to trust to the post the delivery of the card to the person, so that the person must go to an enrolment centre to pick it up, the person who is staffing an enrolment centre may well need physically to have his mitts on the card. However, who else do the Government intend to have permission to have the ID card in their possession and in what circumstances? I beg to move.