(1)Regulations may make provision allowing or requiring a person who provides a public service to make it a condition of providing the service to an individual that the individual produces—
(a)an ID card;
(b)other evidence of registrable facts about himself; or
(c)both.
(2)Regulations under this section may not allow or require the imposition of a condition on—
(a)the entitlement of an individual to receive a payment under or in accordance with any enactment, or
(b)the provision of any public service that has to be provided free of charge,
except in cases where the individual is of a description of individuals who are subject to compulsory registration.
(3)Nothing in this section authorises the making of regulations the effect of which would be to require an individual—
(a)to carry an ID card with him at all times; or
(b)to produce such a card otherwise than for purposes connected with an application by him for the provision of a public service, or with the provision of a public service for which he has applied.