National Registration Act, 2008

The National Registration Act, 2008 provided for the registration of persons in Sierra Leone and the issue of national identity cards, updating the earlier national-registration framework. It aimed to establish a reliable record of the identity of inhabitants.

The Act provided for the registration machinery and authority, the information to be collected and maintained in a national register, the issue of identity documents, and offences relating to registration and identity documents. It was a step towards the integrated civil registration and identification system later created by the National Civil Registration Act, 2016.