CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 7501-3-01 (R2005)

This National Standard of Caada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 7501-3:1997 (first edition 1997-04-15). This International Standard specifies generic formats and minimum data elements for visual inspection and machine reading of official travel documents in the ID-1 and ID-2 card formats containing a single form of machine readable data (optical character recognition, OCR), which may at the option of Governments, be accepted in lieu of a passport as defined in Annex 9 (Chapter 3, paragraph 3.4) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation year 1946 (as revised).