Statutory Rules 1989 No. 71¹

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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 27 April 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER MORRIS

Minister of State for Industrial Relations

for and on behalf of the

Treasurer

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Citation

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

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.

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.

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):

(A) attempts to find employment, or other employment, as the case may be, during the 4 weeks immediately preceding the Census day;

(B) availability to commence employment;

(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.

Repeal

5. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 18 and 1986 No. 30 are repealed.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 April 1989.