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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
[P ART II—
records, made in the interest of national security in pursuance of a direction of an officer not
below the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India specially authorised in this
behalf by an order of the Central Government:
Provided that every direction issued under this sub-section, shall be reviewed by an
Oversight Committee consisting of the Cabinet Secretary and the Secretaries to the
Government of India in the Department of Legal Affairs and the Department of Electronics
and Information Technology, before it takes effect:
Provided further that any direction issued under this sub-section shall be valid for a
period of three months from the date of its issue, which may be extended for a further period
of three months after the review by the Oversight Committee.
CHAPTER VII
OFFENCES
AND PENALTIES
Penalty for
impersonation
at time of
enrolment.
34. Whoever impersonates or attempts to impersonate another person, whether dead
or alive, real or imaginary, by providing any false demographic information or biometric
information, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three
years or with a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both.
Penalty for
impersonation
of Aadhaar
number holder
by changing
demographic
information
or biometric
information.
35. Whoever, with the intention of causing harm or mischief to an Aadhaar number
holder, or with the intention of appropriating the identity of an Aadhaar number holder
changes or attempts to change any demographic information or biometric information of an
Aadhaar number holder by impersonating or attempting to impersonate another person,
dead or alive, real or imaginary, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years and shall also be liable to a fine which may extend to ten thousand
rupees.
Penalty for
impersonation.
36. Whoever, not being authorised to collect identity information under the provisions
of this Act, by words, conduct or demeanour pretends that he is authorised to do so, shall
be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with a fine
which may extend to ten thousand rupees or, in the case of a company, with a fine which
may extend to one lakh rupees or with both.
Penalty for
disclosing
identity
information.
37. Whoever, intentionally discloses, transmits, copies or otherwise disseminates
any identity information collected in the course of enrolment or authentication to any
person not authorised under this Act or regulations made thereunder or in contravention of
any agreement or arrangement entered into pursuant to the provisions of this Act, shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with a fine
which may extend to ten thousand rupees or, in the case of a company, with a fine which
may extend to one lakh rupees or with both.
Penalty for
unauthorised
access to the
Central
Identities
Data
Repository.
38. Whoever, not being authorised by the Authority, intentionally,—
(a) accesses or secures access to the Central Identities Data Repository;
(b) downloads, copies or extracts any data from the Central Identities Data
Repository or stored in any removable storage medium;
(c) introduces or causes to be introduced any virus or other computer
contaminant in the Central Identities Data Repository;
(d) damages or causes to be damaged the data in the Central Identities Data
Repository;
(e) disrupts or causes disruption of the access to the Central Identities Data
Repository;
(f) denies or causes a denial of access to any person who is authorised to
access the Central Identities Data Repository;