National Registration Act, 1974

The National Registration Act, 1974 provided for the registration of persons in Sierra Leone — a system for recording the identity of inhabitants and, typically, the issue of identity documents.

The Act provided for the machinery of registration, the information to be recorded, the duties of persons to register, and related administration and offences. It was an earlier framework for national registration, a field later developed by the National Registration Act, 2008 and ultimately the National Civil Registration Act, 2016.