The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on January 31, 2024, issued the Aadhaar (Payment of Fees for Performance of Authentication) Amendment Regulations, 2024 to further amend the Aadhaar (Payment of Fees for Performance of Authentication) Regulations, 2023.
The following amendments have been stated:
• In regulation 3, after sub-regulation (3), the following sub-regulations shall be inserted, namely:—
“(4) Where a requesting entity has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding or agreement with the Authority for performing authentication with update regarding the status as to whether any Aadhaar number previously submitted has been subsequently omitted or deactivated or re-activated, for any response subsequently received by way of such update in accordance with the regulations made by the Authority in respect of performance of authentication of Aadhaar numbers, a fee of five rupees shall be chargeable to such requesting entity for every such update:
Provided that the Authority may, where such update is in the interests of performance of its functions and exercise of its powers, including the maintenance of information of Aadhaar number holders in CIDR, updating of their current details for continued accuracy in CIDR, processing of information of Aadhaar numbers and inquiry into CIDR, by order, waive such fee, to such extent as such order may specify.
(5) The fee under sub-regulation (4)—
(a) shall be inclusive of applicable taxes;
(b) shall, upon completion of every period of twenty-four calendar months from the end of the calendar month in which the Aadhaar (Payment of Fees for Performance of Authentication) Amendment Regulations, 2024 came into force, stand revised in proportion to the ratio of the Consumer Price Index for the calendar month at the end of such period to that for the calendar month in which the said regulations came into force, rounded off to the nearest ten paise:
Provided that the Authority may, by notification, defer such revision by such period as it may specify.”.
• After regulation 4, the following regulation shall be inserted, namely:—
“5. Doing of act or thing related to delegated power or function. — (1) Any act or thing that is to be or may be done by the Authority under these regulations may also be done by any Member or officer of the Authority or any other person to whom the Authority has delegated the related power or function by general or special order in writing, under section 51 of the Act.
(2) The Authority may determine whether or not an act or thing done by a Member, officer or other person under sub-regulation (1) related to a power or function delegated as referred to in the said sub-regulation.”.
[Notification No. HQ-13073/1/2020-AUTH.II (E)]
