CENSUS REGULATIONS
- In force under the Census and Statistics Act 1905
- Updated as at 10 February 1994 (#DATE 10:02:1994)
*1* The Census Regulations (in force under the Census and Statistics Act 1905)
as shown in this reprint comprise Statutory Rules 1989 No. 71 amended as
indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Statutory Rules
Year and Date of Date of Application,
number notification commencement saving or
in Gazette transitional
provisions
1989 No. 71 28 Apr 1989 28 Apr 1989
1990 No. 91 17 May 1990 17 May 1990 -
Table of Amendments
ad=added or inserted am=amended rep=repealed rs=repealed and substituted
Provision affected How affected
R. 4 am. 1990 No 91
CENSUS REGULATIONS - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Prescribed external Territories for the purposes of
section 2 of the Act
4. Prescribed matters for the purposes of section 8 of the
Act
5. Repeal
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Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Census Regulations.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .
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Interpretation
2. (1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Census day" means the day in the year 1991 that is appointed under
subsection 8 (2) of the Act;
"Census night" means the night of the Census day;
"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.
(2) In subparagraph 4 (a) (xx), a reference to a person's employer is, in
the case of a self-employed person, a reference to a business carried on by
the person.
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Prescribed external Territories for the purposes of section 2 of the Act
3. For the purposes of section 2 of the Act, each of the following external
Territories is prescribed:
(a) Christmas Island;
(b) Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
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Prescribed matters for the purposes of section 8 of the Act
4. Each of the following matters is prescribed for the purposes of section 8
of the Act:
(a) in relation to a person:
(i) name;
(ii) age;
(iii) gender;
(iv) address at which Census night was spent;
(v) present marital status;
(vi) in the case of a person who spends Census night in a private
dwelling - relationship to the other persons, if any, who spend Census night
in that dwelling;
(vii) in the case of a person who is usually a member of a household
but who does not spend Census night with the other members of that household:
(A) name;
(B) age;
(C) gender;
(D) relationship to other members of that household;
(E) present marital status;
(F) student status;
(viii) in the case of a person who spends Census night on a train or
bus or at a dwelling other than a private dwelling - reason for presence on
the train or bus or at the dwelling;
(ix) usual residence:
(A) on the Census day;
(B) one year before the Census day;
(C) 5 years before the Census day;
(x) birthplace;
(xi) birthplace of parents;
(xii) in the case of a person not born in Australia - year of first
arrival in Australia;
(xiii) citizenship;
(xiv) Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin;
(xv) languages spoken at home;
(xvi) proficiency in speaking English;
(xvii) religious denomination;
(xviii) present attendance at an educational institution;
(xix) in the case of a person who is not less than 15 years of age:
(A) age of leaving school;
(B) education qualifications;
(C) income;
(xx) in the case of a person, being not less than 15 years of age, who
was employed or self-employed during the week immediately preceding the Census
day:
(A) receipt of wages or salary during that week;
(B) where the person was self-employed - other persons employed by
that person during that week;
(C) the name and address of the person's employer during that week;
(D) the main kind of business or industry carried on, or service
provided, by the person's employer during that week;
(E) the hours worked by the person during that week;
(F) the kind of work performed during that week by the person;
(xxi) in the case of an employed or self-employed person - mode of
transport or other means of getting to the workplace;
(xxii) in the case of an unemployed person or a person engaged in
unremunerated employment (other than in a family business) - attempts to find
employment, or other employment, as the case may be, during the 4 weeks
immediately preceding the Census day;
(b) in relation to a private dwelling:
(i) the structure;
(ii) the number of bedrooms;
(iii) the number of registered motor vehicles garaged or parked at the
dwelling on Census night;
(iv) the right, title or interest of the occupier in relation to the
dwelling;
(v) the monthly mortgage or loan repayments;
(vi) in the case of a rented dwelling:
(A) the weekly rent;
(B) the Government agency, if any, to which rent is paid;
(C) provision of furniture;
(c) in relation to a dwelling other than a private dwelling - classification
of the dwelling by reference to its purpose.
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Repeal
5. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 18 and 1986 No. 30 are repealed.