CENSUS REGULATIONS 1985 NO. 18 

CENSUS REGULATIONS 1985 NO. 18 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Citation  
2. Interpretation  
3. Prescribed matters for the purposes of section 8 of the Act  
4. Repeal  


1985 No. 18 CENSUS REGULATIONS
- REG 1
Citation


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


1985 No. 18 CENSUS REGULATIONS
- REG 2
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.



1985 No. 18 CENSUS REGULATIONS
- REG 3
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.



1985 No. 18 CENSUS REGULATIONS
- REG 4
Repeal


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 Statutory Rules 1979 No. 246 and 1980 No. 332 are repealed.


- NOTES


1985 No. 18*1* CENSUS REGULATIONS



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