Thereafter, I'll bet that anytime a security operative asks you for the national ID card, despite the fact that you may already have given him/her you airside pass to pass through a barrier, and you refuse, you'll be denied entry because these places are all private property and they can stipulate what they like if you wish to proceed through.
No, you won't. The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Para 16, s2) specifically makes it a civil offence for ANYBODY to require you to produce the ID card for ANY purpose, or provide them with ANY information held about you on the database. If airports chose to make it a condition of passage through security, they would be breaking the law. The fact that the premises are 'private property' is irrelevant. In fact, reading through the provisions of the above-mentioned s2, any attempt to get anybody to do
anything other than register and obtain a card would be illegal - with that in mind, exactly what
is the purpose of forcing the aviation industry to register en-masse? The card cannot be used for anything, under current legislation.
Having said all that, I couldn't be more opposed to this scheme. As many have already said, it's not the card itself, but the data collection behind it. Read through the Act itself
here - many of its provisions are truly frightening. For example, the Home Secretary can demand information, under penalty, from
any person, that relates to
any other person on the database. Moreover, the Act specifically authorises him to
pay for that information!!! This seems more to be straight out of a Mafioso movie than a supposedly free, democratic society!