Section 3
Obligations of keepers of, and residents in, specified premises
of Registration of Guests Act 1965
(1)
It shall be the duty of the keeper of any specified premises—
(a)
to keep a register in the form in the First Schedule of all persons lodging at the premises who are not servants of the keeper of the premises and who are not under the age of twelve years;
(b)
on the arrival of any such person at the premises, to ascertain and enter or cause to be entered in the register kept for that purpose the name, address, occupation, sex and nationality of that person, and the number, place and date of issue of his identity card or (if he has no identity card) of his passport, together with the date and time of his arrival and the name of the last place from which, and the means by which, he arrived;
(c)
on the departure of any such person from the premises, to enter or cause to be entered in the register the date and time of departure and the destination on departure of such person;
(d)
to enter or cause to be entered in the register such other particulars as may be prescribed; and
(e)
to furnish to the nearest registration officer such returns as to the persons lodging at the premises at such times or intervals and in such form as may be prescribed.
(2)
It shall be the duty of every person required to be registered under paragraph (1)(a) to furnish the particulars required by this
Act to be entered in the register and to sign the register.
(3)
The keeper of any specified premises shall, if so required at any time by any police officer, make available for inspection any register kept in relation to those premises under this section, and every such register shall be open at all reasonable hours for inspection by a registration officer, or any person authorized for that purpose by a registration officer.
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(4)
Any police officer, registration officer or any such authorized person as is mentioned in subsection (3) may make extracts from any register inspected by him under that subsection, and if he has reason to suspect the genuineness of any particulars entered in the register or if any entry therein is in his opinion incomplete or misleading, he shall be entitled to demand such further information as appears to him to be necessary from the person to whom the entry relates or any person occupying the room to which the entry relates.
(5)
Every register kept under this section shall be preserved by the keeper of the premises to which it relates for a period of not less than two years from the date of the last entry and may thereafter, at the discretion of the keeper, be destroyed.
(6)
Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, the registration officer may, by notice in writing under his hand, authorize the keeper of any specified premises mentioned in the notice to keep a register in a different form (including a loose-leaf register or card-index or a register which is partly in the form of a bound register and partly in the form of a loose-leaf register or card-index) from that provided by this section.