Section 38, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

(1) The Integrated National Civil Registration Systemshall have automated databases which shall contain- (a) personal data from the manual civil registers; (b) national data related to the maintenance of the information about the individuals; and (c) biometric data of individuals including face, fingerprint, blood group, eye colour, height, etc. Evidence of births and deaths. Integrated National Civil System. Automated databases. 26 27 (2) The automated databases shall be used to ensure- (a) the registration, maintenance and updating of the civil registration data; (b) preservation and maintenance of the chronology of changed civil registration data; and (c) accuracy, comprehensiveness and interrelatedness of the civil registration data. (3) The data in the automated databases shall be entered at chiefdom, district, regional and national level. (4) The data shall be entered once at the place of occurrence of the event or of the change and the data coming from other information systems shall be entered centrally with a note to inform the chiefdom, district and regional offices. (5) The data from the local registration centers shall be sent regularly to the respective districts for transmission to a regional or national level.