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The Census Regulations, 1921
[14 February 1921]
1921. No. 195
THE CENSUS REGULATIONS, 1921, DATED FEBRUARY 14, 1921, MADE BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH UNDER SECTION 3 (1) OF THE CENSUS ACT, 1920 (10 & 11 GEO. 5, C. 41), FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENABLING THE CENSUS ORDER, 1920, TO BE CARRIED INTO EFFECT. (a)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of June, 1921.
PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
The Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by Sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Census Act, 1920, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations—
1. This Regulations may be cited as the Census Regulations, 1921.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
"The Minister" means the Minister of Health.
"Order" means the Census Order, 1920; (b)
"Prescribed person" means a person required by the Order to make a return.
"Registrar" means a Registrar of Births and Deaths and includes an interim
Registrar of Births and Deaths, and any person for the time being appointed
by the Registrar-General to act in the place of a Registrar for the purposes of
these Regulations.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, (c) applies to the interpretation
of these Regulations as it applies to an Act of Parliament.
Enumeration Districts.
2. (1) It shall be the duty of a Registrar if so required by
the Registrar-General, to prepare and submit to the Registrar-General
in such manner and within such period as the Registrar-General
may direct, a scheme for the division of the registration sub-district
in which he acts as Registrar into districts for the
purpose of the Census enumeration.
(2) The Registrar-General may approve any such scheme
with or without modifications, and the divisions shown in any
scheme so approved by the Registrar-General shall be enumeration
districts for the purposes of the Census.
Appointment of Enumerators, etc.(a)
3. (1) The Registrar-General may appoint, or authorise a
Registrar, subject to his approval, to appoint for any enumeration
district an officer (hereinafter called "the Enumerator") who
shall perform in that enumeration district the duties hereinafter
set forth.
(2) Any assistant overseer of the poor, relieving officer of
a poor law union, or collector of the poor rate shall, if so
required by the Registrar-General by writing under his hand,
with the approval of the Minister, act as Enumerator for any
enumeration district in which such overseer, officer, or collector
resides or performs the duties of his office.
(3) A Registrar shall, if so required by the Registrar-General,
in the case of an enumeration district comprising only
persons with respect to whom a single prescribed person is
required by that Order to make a return, act as Enumerator for
that district.
(4) Every Registrar and every person appointed or required
to act as Enumerator under these Regulations and every person
assisting a Registrar or Enumerator in the performance of his
duties shall, before he acts as such Registrar or Enumerator
or assistant, or performs any of the duties imposed by these
Regulations, sign an undertaking in the form set forth in the
First Schedule to these Regulations or in a form substantially
to the like effect faithfully to perform the duties imposed on
him by these Regulations or otherwise.
Forms of Return.(b)
4. (1) The return to be made in England (excluding Monmouth)
by the prescribed persons mentioned in paragraphs (1),
(2) and (8) of the First Schedule to the Order shall be made
in the form set forth in Part I. of the Second Schedule to these
Regulations or in a form substantially to the like effect.
(2) The return to be made in Wales and Monmouth
by the prescribed persons mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2) and
(8) of the First Schedule to the Order shall be made in the
form set forth in Part II. of the Second Schedule to these
Regulations or in a form substantially to the like effect.
(3) The return to be made in England and Wales by the
prescribed persons mentioned in paragraph (3) of the First
Schedule to the Order shall be made in the form set forth in
Part III. of the Second Schedule to these Regulations or in a
form substantially to the like effect.
(4) The return to be made in England and Wales by the
prescribed persons mentioned in paragraph (4) of the First
Schedule to the Order shall be made in the form set forth in
Part IV. of the Second Schedule to these Regulations or in a
form substantially to the like effect.
(5) The return to be made in England and Wales by the
prescribed persons mentioned in paragraph (5) of the First
Schedule to the Order shall be made in the form set forth in
Part V. of the Second Schedule to these Regulations or in a
form substantially to the like effect.
(6) The return to be made in England and Wales by the
prescribed persons mentioned in paragraph (6) of the First
Schedule to the Order shall be made in the form set forth in
Part VI. of the Second Schedule to these Regulations or in a
form substantially to the like effect.
(7) Every return made by or on behalf of a prescribed
person shall comply with the instructions shown on the form on
which the return is made.
(8) The Registrar-General may cause any of the above forms
to be translated into Welsh or into any other language if it appears
to him necessary for the purpose of the Census enumeration, and
this Article shall apply to any forms so translated.
Delivery and Collection of Returns.
5.(1) Every Registrar shall, not later than fourteen days
before the Census Day, furnish every Enumerator appointed or
required under these Regulations to act for an enumeration district
within his registration sub-district with an enumeration
book to be provided for the purpose by the Registrar-General
in which the Registrar shall have entered such particulars as
the Registrar-General may require, and with a sufficient number
of forms of return and such other forms as may be necessary
for the purpose of the Census enumeration.
(2) The Enumerator shall, not earlier than eight days
and not later than the day before the Census Day, deliver to
each prescribed person in his district or to a person acting on
behalf of such prescribed person the appropriate form of return,
and shall, upon delivery of the form, enter thereon and in the
enumeration book such particulars as the Registrar-General may
require.
(3) The Enumerator shall, if so requested by any prescribed
person or by any person acting on behalf of such prescribed
person, give such explanations as to the form of return or the
procedure to be followed in making the return as are reasonably
necessary to enable the prescribed person to make a proper return.
6. Every person with respect to whom it is the duty of a
prescribed person to make a return shall give to the prescribed
person such information as he may reasonably require for the
purpose of enabling him to make the return:
Provided that no person shall use, publish, or communicate to
any other person any information so given otherwise than in
accordance with these Regulations.
7. (1) Where any person being of full age who is mentioned
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the first column of the First Schedule
to the Order serves upon the Enumerator in person upon
his attending at any premises to deliver the form of return a
claim on the form provided for the purpose to be allowed to make
a confidential return, the Enumerator shall deliver to such person
a separate form of return and shall, upon delivering the form of
return to the prescribed person who would but for such claim be
required to make a return in respect of the person claiming,
give notice of the claim to the prescribed person.
(2) Where such claim and notice have been duly served
the prescribed person to whom notice is given shall not be required
to include in his return any particulars with respect to
the person claiming other than the name of such person and the
relation in which he stands to the prescribed person, and the
person so claiming shall be deemed to be the prescribed person
with respect to himself and shall, in making his return, state
therein the name of the person who but for the claim would have
been required to make the return.
8. (1) The Enumerator shall, upon attending at any premises
to deliver a form of return to a prescribed person, inquire as
to the number of living rooms occupied by the persons with
respect to whom the return is to be made, and shall enter the
particulars so ascertained upon the form of return before it is
delivered.
(2) The person to whom the return is delivered shall give
the Enumerator all such information as he may reasonably require
for the purpose of making the entry aforesaid.
9. (1) The Enumerator shall, as nearly as may be in the course
of the day following the Census Day, collect all forms of return
delivered by him and shall examine each return and satisfy
himself that the entries thereon are properly and sufficiently
made, and shall make all such inquiries as are reasonably necessary
for that purpose and shall himself make such corrections in
the return as appear to him on inquiry to be required.
(2) Every person shall give to the Enumerator all such information
as may reasonably be required by him as aforesaid for
the completion or correction of any return.
10. The Enumerator shall, on receiving each return, enter
upon the return and in his enumeration book such particulars
as may be required by the Registrar-General to be entered by
the Enumerator on the form of return and in the enumeration
book, and shall within fourteen days after the Census Day&mdash:
(a) enter in the enumeration book and in all forms of return
collected by him such further particulars as may be
required by the Registrar-General; and
(b) deliver to the Registrar the enumeration book and the
returns of all prescribed persons in his district duly
completed and entered as aforesaid, and do such other
acts and things relating to the census enumeration
in his district as may be required by instructions of
the Registrar-General given under these Regulations.
11. (1) The Registrar shall examine the enumeration books
and the returns so delivered to him, and where it appears to him
that any book or return is incomplete or that any entry on a
return is insufficient or is inconsistent with any other entries, he
shall require the Enumerator from whom it was received to take
such steps as may be reasonably necessary, whether by inquiry
from any prescribed person or otherwise, to complete or correct
the book or return, and to forward the book or return duly completed
or corrected to the Registrar within the period specified
by the Registrar for that purpose.
(2) The Registrar shall, within forty days after the
Census Day, forward to the Registrar-General the enumeration
books duly completed for all enumeration districts within the
registration sub-district, together with the returns made by all
the prescribed persons within that sub-district, and do such other
acts and things relating to the census enumeration as may be
required by instructions of the Registrar-General given under
these Regulations.
Instructions and Directions of Registrar-General.
12. The Registrar-General may himself give, or may authorise a Registrar to give, to an Enumerator, and may give to a Registrar, such instructions or directions, whether particular or general, as he may think necessary for the due performance by Registrars or Enumerators of the duties imposed on them by these Regulations, and any such instructions or directions shall be complied with by any Registrar or Enumerator to whom they are given.
Miscellaneous.
13. Where it appears to the Registrar-General that a Registrar or Enumerator is for reasons of health or otherwise unfit to perform the duties imposed on him by these Regulations, the Registrar-General may appoint some fit and proper person in his place to perform the said duties.
14. The Registrar-General may, if he thinks fit, require a Registrar or Enumerator to make a statutory declaration that such Registrar or Enumerator has properly and sufficiently performed the duties imposed on him by these Regulations and may authorise the Superintendent Registrar of the district, or, in the case of an Enumerator, the Registrar of the registration sub-district, to take such declaration.
15. The Registrar-General may appoint any Superintendent Registrar or, with the consent of a local authority, any officer of that local authority, to be a Census Advisory Officer for any area, and any person so appointed shall perform such duties in relation to the Census as the Registrar-General may assign to him.
16. No person having the custody, whether by himself or on behalf of any other person, of any forms of return, enumeration books or other confidential documents relating to the Census shall permit any other person without lawful authority to have, or fail to prevent any other person from having, access thereto.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
I,
[ * being the Registrar or interim Registrar of the
registration sub-district, or a person appointed by the Registrar-General
to act in the place of the Registrar of the
registration sub-district for the purposes of the Census Regulations,
1920;
or being an Enumerator appointed for the purposes of the Census, 1921.
or being an assistant employed by
for the purposes of the Census, 1921]
hereby undertake and promise faithfully to perform the duties imposed
by the Census Act, 1920, and by the Census Regulations, 1921, so far
as applicable to me, and to fulfil all the obligations required of me by
the Act and by the Regulations, and I hereby state that I have read and
understand the provisions of Section 8 of the Act, and of Article 3 (4)
and Article 16 of the Regulations hereunto annexed.
Signed ................................................
In the presence of.................................................
Section 8 of the Census Act, 1920, is as follows:—
" 8. — (1) If any person—
(a) refuses or neglects to comply with or acts in contravention
of any of the provisions of this Act or any Order in Council
or regulations made under this Act; or
(b) being a person required under this Act to make a statutory
declaration with respect to the performance of his duties,
makes a false declaration; or
(c) being a person required by any Order in Council or regulations
made under this Act to make, sign, or deliver any document,
makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or
delivered a false document; or
(d) being a person required in pursuance of any such Order in
Council or Regulations to answer any question, refuses to
answer or gives a false answer to that question;
he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding ten pounds.
(2) If any person—
(a) being a person employed in taking a census, without lawful
authority publishes or communicates to any person otherwise
than in the ordinary course of such employment any information
acquired by him in the course of his employment; or
(b) having possession of any information which to his knowledge
has been disclosed in contravention of this Act, publishes or
communicates this information to any other person;
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be
liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not
exceeding two years or to a fine, or to both such imprisonment and
fine."
Article 3 (4) and Article 16 of the Census Regulations, 1921, are as
follows: —
" 3. (4) Every Registrar and every person appointed or required
to act as Enumerator under these Regulations and every person
assisting a Registrar or Enumerator in the performance of his duties
shall, before he acts as such Registrar or Enumerator or assistant,
or performs any of the duties imposed by these Regulations, sign
an undertaking in the form set forth in the First Schedule to these
Regulations or in a form substantially to the like effect faithfully
to perform the duties imposed on him by these Regulations or
otherwise."
" 16. No person having the custody, whether by himself or on
behalf of any other person, of any forms of return, enumeration
books or other confidential documents relating to the Census shall
permit any other person without lawful authority to have, or fail
to prevent any other person from having, access thereto."
SECOND SCHEDULE.
[The Second Schedule, containing the six Forms of Return (see paragraph 4 of these Regulations at p.52 above) is omitted from this reprint.]
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this 14th day of February, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.
W. A. Robinson,
Secretary,
Ministry of Health.
NOTES
(a) CENSUS, SCOTLAND. — For the corresponding Scottish Regs. see S.R. & O., 1920, No. 2469, II, p.1559.
(b) S. R. & O., 1920, No. 2440, I., p.209.
(a) Provisional "Census Regs. (No. 2), 1921," dated April 27, 1921, arranged for the action of enumerators in connection with the postponed census.
(b) The Second Schedule, included when these Regs. were put on sale as a separate S. R. & O., and containing the Forms of Return, is omitted from this reprint.
* Strike out the words which do not apply.