Amending regulation
Aadhaar (Sharing of Information) First Amendment Regulations, 2025
This amending instrument records 2 discrete changes to the principal regulations: a new sub-regulation (6) in regulation 3 enabling sharing of children’s Aadhaar numbers with the Registrar General of India / Chief Registrar to prevent duplicate enrolments, and a new proviso to regulation 5(3) carving out the deceased-person deactivation case.
Changes
(6) The Authority may, with the consent of parent or guardian, share the Aadhaar number, which was generated pursuant to enrolment of a child below the age of 5 years on the basis of a birth certificate and without collecting the core biometric information, with the Registrar General of India or Chief Registrar for a State appointed under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 to prevent duplicate enrolment on the basis of the same birth certificate.
Provided that the same shall not be required in case of deactivation of Aadhaar number of a deceased person under clause (ea) of sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 28 of The Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016.