STATUTORY RULES.

1909. No. 60.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS ACT 1905.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 26th day of May, One thousand nine hundred and nine.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

HUGH MAHON,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

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Utilization of Statistical Information for State Purposes.

Any State Officer executing any power or duty under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 may, in the absence of any provision to the contrary in any arrangement entered into under section 6 of that Act applicable to the case, utilize any statistical information obtained by him in the exercise of that power or duty for the purpose of State statistics; provided that no information shall be made public or supplied to persons other than officers in the Statistical Office of the State, whereby the particulars of the business or financial position of any individual, or any firm or corporation, or of any aggregate of persons regarded for the purposes of statistics as an individual, may be disclosed.

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