People's Republic of China (PRC) Identity Card Law

Seventeenth one of the following acts, by the public security organs fined two hundred yuan to one thousand yuan, or detained for ten days, illegal income, confiscate the illegal income:

(a) using another person's identity card or using a forged identity card;

(2) buying, selling or using forged or altered identity cards.

Forged or altered identity cards and fraudulent identity cards shall be confiscated by public security organs.

Article 18 Whoever forges or alters a resident identity card shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.

Whoever commits any of the acts listed in Articles 16 and 17 of this Law and commits criminal activities shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.

Article 19. If the staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units disclose the personal information of citizens recorded in resident ID cards obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services, which constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; If the case does not constitute a crime, it shall be detained by the public security organ from 10 to 15 and fined 5000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.

If a unit commits the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph, which constitutes a crime, it shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If it does not constitute a crime, the public security organ shall detain the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel for more than 10 and less than 15, and impose a fine of more than100000 yuan and less than 500000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.

Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs and causes damage to others shall bear civil liability according to law.