STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1983 NO. 18 STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1983 NO. 18 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Commencement 2. 3. 4. Heading 5. Schedule 1983 No. 18 STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 1 Commencement 1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 March 1983. 1983 No. 18 STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2 2. Regulations 2, 3 and 4 of the Statistics Regulations are repealed and the following regulations substituted: Interpretation "2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, "the Act" means the Census and Statistics Act 1905. Appointment of persons to assist the Statistician "3. (1) The Statistician may engage persons, other than members of the staff of the Bureau referred to in sub-section 16 (1) of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975, to assist in the carrying out of the functions of the Statistician. "(2) A person engaged by the Statistician under sub-regulation (1) shall carry out such duties as the Statistician considers will assist in the carrying out of his functions. Form of undertaking "4. For the purposes of section 7 of the Act the form set out in the Schedule is prescribed.". 1983 No. 18 STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3 3. Regulations 6, 7 and 8 of the Statistics Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is substituted: Evidentiary Certificates "6. (1) The Statistician may give a certificate- (a) that a document annexed to the certificate is a true copy of a notice under sub-section 10 (4) or 11 (2) of the Act served on a person specified in the certificate; and (b) that, in the case of a notice under sub-section 10 (4) of the Act- (i) a form annexed to the certificate is a true copy of the form that accompanied that notice; and (ii) where instructions accompanied the form referred to in sub-paragraph (i), a document annexed to the certificate is a true copy of those instructions. "(2) The Statistician may give a certificate that a document annexed to the certificate is a true copy of an undertaking of the kind referred to in paragraph 13 (2) (c) of the Act by a person specified in the certificate. "(3) In proceedings for an offence against the Act, a certificate given under this regulation is evidence of the facts specified in the certificate. "(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a writing purporting to be a certificate given under this regulation shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate.". 1983 No. 18 STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 4 Heading 4. The heading immediately preceding the First Schedule to the Statistics Regulations is repealed. 1983 No. 18 STATISTICS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5 Schedule 5. The First Schedule and the Second Schedule to the Statistics Regulations are repealed and the following Schedule is substituted: SCHEDULE Regulation 4 Census and Statistics Act 1905 UNDERTAKING OF FIDELITY AND SECRECY I, (Name) of (Address) being an officer within the meaning of the Census and Statistics Act 1905, hereby undertake that I will faithfully and to the best of my ability execute the powers or duties conferred or imposed on me by or under that Act or the regulations and that I will not, except- (a) in accordance with a determination under that Act; or (b) for the purposes of that Act, either directly or indirectly, divulge or communicate any information furnished in pursuance of that Act to any person (other than the person from whom the information was obtained). Dated 19 . (Signature of officer) Signed in the presence of: (Signature and legible statement of name and address of witness ) - NOTES 1983 No. 18*1* STATISTICS REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT) *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 February 1983. *2* Statutory Rules 1950 No. 43 as amended by 1958 No. 20; 1982 No. 228.