THE National Registration Department (JPN) received five applications for late registrations of birth as of March this year and three are still under consideration.
Assistant Minister of Social Development Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah informed the august House yesterday that there was a total of 11 late registrations of birth applications last year.
“Out of the eleven, four were rejected mainly due to conflict in information and evidence provided,” he said in responding to Johnical Rayong Ngipa’s (BN-Engkilili) question on the status of late birth registrations in his constituency and the compound charged.
On the late application of identity cards in 2013, Karim revealed that there were eight applications of which all were approved.
“Until March this year, JPN has received one late application only, which has been approved,” he said.
Elaborating on the compound charged for late applications, Karim said the compound amount was determined according to age category.
For children reaching the age of 12 who did not apply within 30 days until 13 years of age, Karim disclosed, will be compounded RM11 (RM10 for processing fee and RM1 compound amount).
“The amount is subsequently increased to RM14 for children aged 14 and a day until 15 years old and RM16 (15 years old and 1 day until 16 years old),” he explained.
“As for those above 16 years and below 19, the compound is RM10 only,” he said.
“Those 19 to 21 years of age will be charged RM50 and subsequently increased to RM70 (22 to 24 years old), RM90 (25 to 27 years old), RM110 (28 to 30 years old), RM130 (31 to 33 years old), RM150 (34 to 36 years old) and RM170 (37 to 39 years old),” he added.