Section 31: Power to make regulations.

The Commission may make regulations for the effective operation of this Act and the due administration thereof and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Commission may by such regulations-(a) provide for any alterations in the particulars recorded in the Database;
(b) provide for the collection, collation and processing of data and other relevant information; and
(c)
allow or require a person who provides a public service to make it a condition of providing the service to a registered individual that the individual produces-
(i) the Multi-purpose Identity Card issued to him;
(ii) other evidence of facts about himself contained in the Database; or
(iii) both: Provided that nothing in this paragraph authorises the making of regulations the effect of which will be to require a registered individual to carry a Multi-purpose Identity Card with him at all times or to produce such a card otherwise than for the purposes connected with an application by him for the provision of a public service;
(d) impose fees (if any) of such amounts as the Commission thinks fit, which may be charged for the issue, re-issue or replacement of the Multi-purpose Identity Cards including different fees to be charged in different circumstances and the circumstances in which such fees may be charged, including anyone or more of the following-
(i) applications to the Commission for entries to be made in the Database, for the modification of entries or for the issue of Multi-purpose Identity Cards;
(ii) the making or modification of entries in the Database;
(iii) the issue of Multi-purpose Identity Cards;
(iv) applications for the provision of information contained in entries in the Database;
(v) the provision of such information;
(vi) applications for confirmation that information supplied coincides with information recorded in the Register
(vii) the issue or refusal of such confirmations;
(viii) applications for the approval of a person or of an apparatus in accordance with any regulations under this Act; and
(ix) the grant of such approvals;
(e) make provisions for the determination, for the purposes of this Act, of the circumstances in which a place is to be regarded, in relation to a registered individual-
(i) as a place where such registered individual resides; or
(ii) as the registered individual's principal place of residence in Nigeria.