Passport Rules Change and Then Change Back

Passport Rule Change Anticipates ID

Refusenik Sabotage Efforts

The Register
4 April 2006 
"The new UK Identity and Passport Service, spawned out of the
Passport Service after the ID Cards Act became law on Saturday,
celebrated its birth by trying to stop people renewing their
passports whenever they want to, whether or not the passport is
about to expire. The change in terms and conditions were slipped
into the website without announcement, and were quite clearly ID
card related."