Establishment matters of all employees in the Department from recruitment to retirement, updating and maintaining their personal files, training of employees and other human resource development activities, maintaining of discipline and handling disciplinary matters are the personnel management functions of the Administration Division.

 
 

Postal Section
 

 All letters and applications delivered by hand and received by post are distributed among relevant divisions after date stamping and registering by tappal section.

   
 

Legal Section
  Institution of legal action against those who violate the provisions in the Registration of Persons Act.
Verification of the accuracy of documents submitted with applications for identity cards.
Responding to the queries made by defence and public security authorities in regard to personal identity.
Handling all legal matters of the department.
   
 

Record Section
  Applications and documents related to the issue of identity cards and index cards where information in National Identity Cards are recorded, are stored in the Record Room.
In the issue of duplicates and in making amendments to the entries in NICs, index cards are checked and compared with necessary information by this section.
   
 

Mobile Service Section
  All mobile services arranged by the Department of Registration of Persons are organized by the Mobile Service Section.
Mobile services at Divisional Secretarial level on request are conducted by this Section.
Duplicates of National Identity Cards in areas where sudden disasters occur and new identity cards in such areas are issued by this section
Identity cards to residents in the plantation estates are issued by this section in collaboration with various ministries/Non governmental organizations.
Mobile services are conducted in public and private institutions on request and awareness programmes on National Identity Cards are conducted by this section.