CENSUS REGULATIONS 1989 NO. 71 CENSUS REGULATIONS 1989 NO. 71 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Citation 2. Interpretation 3. Prescribed external Territories for the purposes of section 2 of the Act 4. Prescribed matters for the purposes of section 8 of the Act 5. Repeal 1989 No. 71 CENSUS REGULATIONS - REG 1 Citation 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Census Regulations. 1989 No. 71 CENSUS REGULATIONS - REG 2 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. 1989 No. 71 CENSUS REGULATIONS - REG 3 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. 1989 No. 71 CENSUS REGULATIONS - REG 4 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; who was self-employed during the week immediately preceding the Census day: (A) the name of the business conducted by that person; (B) location of the business; (C) the main activity carried on by that business; (D) other persons employed in the business; (xxii) in the case of a person (other than a self-employed person), being not less than 15 years of age, who was employed during the week immediately preceding the Census day: (A) the name of the employer or, where the person had more than one employer, the main employer of the person; (B) that employers's address; (C) the hours worked by the person during that week for that employer; (D) the main activity carried on by that employer; (E) the kind of work performed by the person; (F) receipt of wage or salary; (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. 1989 No. 71 CENSUS REGULATIONS - REG 5 Repeal 5. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 18 and 1986 No. 30 are repealed. - NOTES 1989 No. 71*1* CENSUS REGULATIONS *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 April 1989.