Statutory Rules 1985 No. 181

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Census Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Census and Statistics Act 1905.

Dated 22 February 1985.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

CHRIS HURFORD

Minister of State for Immigration

and Ethnic Affairs for and on behalf

of the Treasurer

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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Census Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“Census day” means the day in the year 1986 that is appointed under sub-section 8 (2) of the Act;

“private dwelling” means a dwelling other than—

(a) a hotel, motel, hostel or boarding house;

(b) a dwelling used solely or principally as sleeping ‘accommodation by members of a group of persons who share common living or dining areas or other common amenities;

(c) a religious institution;

(d) a hospital, school, university, orphanage, house of refuge, prison or any other health, educational, welfare, penal or corrective institution; or

(e) any vessel, not being a houseboat, used in navigation by water;

“the Act” means the Census and Statistics Act 1905.

Prescribed matters for the purposes of section 8 of the Act

3. Each of the following matters is prescribed for the purposes of section 8 of the Act:

(a) in relation to a person—

(i) identity;

(ii) age;

(iii) present and past marital status;

(iv) in the case of a woman of not less than 15 years of age-children born of the woman;

(v) in the case of a person who is a member of a household or spends the night of the Census day as a visitor with the members of a household—relationship to the other members, or members, as the case may be, of the household;

(vi) in the case of a person who spends the night of the Census day on a train or in a dwelling other than a private dwelling—qualification for presence on the train or at the dwelling;

(vii) past and present residence;

(viii) birth-place;

(ix) birth-place of parents;

(x) in the case of a person not born in Australia—first arrival in Australia;

(xi) citizenship;

(xii) ethnic origin;

(xiii) languages used as a medium of communication;

(xiv) religion;

(xv) educational history;

(xvi) in the case of a person of not less than 15 years—

(A) income;

(B) employment during the week immediately preceding the Census day;

(xvii) in the case of a person other than an unemployed person—mode of transport to the work-place;

(xviii) in the case of an unemployed person or a person engaged in unremunerated employment—attempts to find employment, or other employment, as the case may be, during the four weeks immediately preceding the Census day;

(xix) ownership and use of motor vehicles;

(b) in relation to a private dwelling—

(i) the structure;

(ii) the rooms;

(iii) the right, title or interest of the occupier in relation to the dwelling and the furniture in the dwelling;

(iv) the rent payments;

(v) the mortgage or loan repayments;

(vi) in the case of an unoccupied dwelling—the apparent reason why the dwelling is unoccupied;

(c) in relation to a dwelling other than a private dwelling—classification of the dwelling by reference to its purpose.

Repeal

4. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 246 and 1980 No. 332 are repealed.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25 February 1985.