National Registration Act, 1939
CHAPTER 91. An Act to make provision for the establishment of a National Register, for the issue of identity cards, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. [5th September 1939.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—