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Chapter III

Use and Examination

Article 13 Where any citizen is required to prove his identity when engaged in relevant activities, he shall have the right to use his resident identity card for the purpose, and no unit or its staff member concerned may reject it.

Article 14 Any citizen shall, under any of the following circumstances, produce his resident identity card to prove his identity:

(1) changing of the permanent residence registration;

(2) registering for conscription;

(3) registering for marriage or adoption ;

(4) applying for going through the formalities of leaving the country; or

(5) other circumstances where, according to the provisions of laws and administrative regulations, the resident identity card is required to prove his identity.

Where a citizen who fails to get the resident identity card in accordance with the provisions of this Law intends to do what is mentioned in the preceding paragraph, he may prove his identity by any other means which conforms to State regulations.

Article 15 When performing his duties in accordance with law under any of the following circumstances, a people's policeman may, after producing his law-enforcement papers, examine the resident identity cards:

(1) when it is necessary to find out the identity of a law-breaker or criminal suspect;

(2) when it is necessary to find out the identities of the persons concerned during on-the-spot control exercised in accordance with law;

(3) when it is necessary to find out the identities of the relevant persons on the spot in an unexpected incident that seriously endangers public security; or

4) other circumstances under which it is necessary to find out people's identities, as is required by the provisions of laws.

Where a person refuses to have his resident identity card examined by the people's police under any of the circumstances listed in the preceding paragraph, measures shall, on the basis of the different circumstances, be taken to deal with him in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws.

No organization or individual may seize any resident identity card. However, exception shall be made where the public security organ executes the enforcement measure for residential surveillance in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China.