(1) Children’s passports issued before 1 November 2007 on the basis of a statutory instrument pursuant to Section 2 (1) no. 2 as passport substitutes shall qualify as passports in the meaning of this Act if they are machine-readable and contain a digital photograph. In derogation from Section 1 (3), it shall be permissible to hold both a child’s passport in the meaning of the first sentence and a passport, as long as the passport was issued before this Act entered into force.
(2) If the passport authority does not yet have the technical capacity for electronic data transmission, until 30 June 2008 data may be transmitted between passport authorities and intermediary agencies using electronic storage media instead of electronic data transmission, in derogation from Section 6a (1) first and second sentences. Section 6a (1) third sentence, first clause shall apply accordingly.