The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Second Amendment Regulations, 2025, to modify existing Aadhaar rules. The key changes include the introduction of a provision to omit an Aadhaar number if a person’s biometric data is found to be mixed with another individual’s. Additionally, the new regulations establish a clear process for deactivating the Aadhaar number of a deceased person, allowing UIDAI to verify this information with the Registrar General of India, other entities, or even an individual. The amendment also removes the term “temporarily” from a regulation, indicating that certain deactivations are now permanent. These updates address specific issues related to biometric data integrity and the handling of deceased Aadhaar holders’ records. The changes are intended to improve data accuracy within the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR).
UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 22nd August, 2025
F. No. HQ-16021/2/2021-EU-II-HQ (E-6538).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 54 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016), the Unique Identification Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations to further amend the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016, namely:—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) These regulations may be called the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Second Amendment Regulations, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations), in regulation 27, a sub-regulation (4) shall be inserted after sub-regulation (3), namely:—
“(4) Where the Authority is satisfied that the biometric information captured at the time of enrolment for Aadhaar or at the time of biometric update, is mixed with the biometric information of another individual, such Aadhaar number shall be omitted in the manner as specified by the Authority.”
In the principal regulations, in regulation 28,—
(a) in sub-regulation (1), a sub-clause (ca) shall be inserted after sub-clause (c), namely:—
“(ca) Aadhaar number holder was aged five years or above but was enrolled without capturing core biometric information and later biometric update has also been carried out.”
(b) in sub-regulation (1), a sub-clause (ea) shall be inserted after sub-clause (e), namely:— “(ea)
(i) Where the Authority receives information regarding the death of an Aadhaar number holder including the Aadhaar number of the deceased individual, wherever available, the said information shall be verified in a manner as prescribed by the Authority, and upon such verification, the Aadhaar number shall be deactivated.
(ii) In order to ensure continued accuracy of information in the CIDR or to verify the information pertaining to the death of the Aadhar number holder received under sub-regulation (i), the Authority:
A. shall seek information from the Registrar General of India or Chief Registrar for a State appointed under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969; or
B. may seek information from any other entity in the Aadhaar ecosystem; or
C. may receive information from any individual.”
(c) in sub-regulation (2), the word “temporarily”, wherever it occurs, shall be omitted.
4. In the principal regulations, in regulation 30, in sub-regulation (1), a proviso shall be inserted after the second proviso, namely: —
“Provided further that the same shall not be required in case of deactivation of Aadhaar number of a deceased person under clause (ea) of sub-Regulation (1) of regulation 28.”
5. In the principal regulations, in Schedule I, for form V, the following form shall be substituted, namely: —
RAHUL KUMAR, Director
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./313/2025-26]
Note: The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, dated the 14th September, 2016, vide notification number 13012/64/2016/Legal/UIDAI (No. 2 of 2016) dated the 12th September, 2016, and were last amended vide Notification number HQ-16024/4/2021-EU-II-HQ(E-5735), dated the 2nd July, 2025, published on the 3rd July, 2025.
