Day: May 13, 2012

Should you be fined if you failed to register with the local police, the national security agencies, any Government Department or a Credit Reference Agency? Should the national security agencies, for instance, be entitled to create a population register, the core of which could be similar to that of associated with the ill-fated ID Card (much beloved by the previous Government)? Surprised by these questions? Both these outcomes are possible, courtesy of the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill just published