Statutory Rules 1985 No. 1911

 

Determination Under The Census And Statistics Act 1905 (Amendment)

 

I, CHRISTOPHER JOHN HURFORD, Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, acting for and on behalf of the Treasurer, hereby make the following Determination under section 13 of the Census And Statistics Act 1905.

 Dated 29 July 1985.

 

C.J. HURFORD

Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs

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Principal Determination

 1. The Determination under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 (Statutory Rules 1983 No. 19) is in this Determination referred to as the Principal Determination.

 2. The Principal Determination is amended by inserting the following clause immediately before clause 1:

Citation

 “1A. This Determination may be cited as the Statistics Determination.”.

 3. The Principal Determination is amended by inserting after clause 7 the following clause:

Disclosure of information to enable the Statistician to perform relevant

functions

 “7A. (1) Information relating to a person, other than information of a personal or domestic nature which is likely to enable the identification of that person, and information relating to an organization may, with the approval in writing of the Statistician, be disclosed to a person or organization where—

 (a) such disclosure is necessary to assist the Statistician to perform statistical processing functions; and

 (b) the Statistician has been given a relevant undertaking for the purposes of this clause.

 

 

 

 

 

“(2)A reference in this clause to a relevant undertaking shall be read as a reference to an undertaking in writing by—

 (a) in the case of information to be disclosed to a person, being an individual-that person; or

 

 (b) in the case of information to be disclosed to an organization-each proprietor, partner, officer or employee of that organization who has access to the information,

that the information will be used only to assist the Statistician to perform the statistical processing functions as specified in the undertaking and that the information will not be disclosed to another person or organization other than a proprietor, partner, officer or employee of the same organization who has also given the Statistician an undertaking pursuant to this clause.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 August 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1983 No. 19.