On March 03, 2022, the Unique Identification Authority of India has issued the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) (Ninth Amendment) Regulations, 2022 to further amend the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016<\/a>. This Notification shall come into force from January 01, 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201c(e) (i) Where an Aadhaar number holder has attained the age of 5 or 15 years, the first update in his\/her Aadhaar has to be necessarily accompanied by a biometric information update.<\/p>\n
(ii) Where an Aadhaar number holder who has attained the age of 5 or 15 years fails to update his\/her biometric information within 2 years of attaining such age, his\/her Aadhaar number shall be deactivated. The facility of biometric information update shall be available free of cost to the Aadhaar number holder till attaining the age of 7 or 17 years, respectively. Thereafter, the Aadhaar number holder can activate his\/her Aadhaar number by updating his\/her biometric information. However, the applicable charges for biometric information update as fixed by the Authority from time to time shall be borne by the Aadhaar number holder.<\/p>\n
(iii) The Aadhaar number shall not be omitted even if the Aadhaar number holder does not update biometric information, and the Aadhaar number shall remain in deactivated state.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProvided that no such inquiry shall be required in case of deactivation of the Aadhaar number of a child for the want of mandatory biometric information update as per the Regulation 28(1)(e)\u201d<\/p>\n
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