Cap. 258 Art. 7Validity of, and application for an identity card.

(1) An identity card shall remain valid for a maximum period of ten years or such other period as may be prescribed:

Provided that the Prime Minister may at any time (other than the period between the dissolution of Parliament and the conclusion of the first general election held after such dissolution), by notice in the Gazette terminate, in such manner and on such date or dates as he may deem appropriate, the validity of all or any number of identity cards: Provided further that where an identity card has been issued in respect of a Maltese national under the age of sixteen or eighteen years, such identity card shall cease to be valid upon the sixteenth or eighteenth birthday of the holder thereof, as the case may be. Such holder shall be obliged to seek to have his identity card reissued not later than one month after his sixteenth or eighteenth birthday.

(2) Where the holder of an identity card is a person to whom article 4 applies, such person shall, not later than one month prior to the expiration of the validity of the identity card, or not later