Census Regulations, 2021

L.N. 427 of 2021

CENSUS ACT

(CAP. 118)

Census Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 6 of the Census

Act, the Prime Minister has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Census Regulations,

2021.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Census Act;

"census forms" means the forms prescribed in regulation 12;

"census information" means all information necessary for the

making of true and accurate entries in census forms;

"Census Order" means the Census Order, 2021;

2021. "locality" and "enumeration areas" mean such sections of Malta

as may be determined by the census officer under regulation 3;

"midnight ending the census day" shall have the same meaning as

assigned to it in the Census Order, 2021;

2021. "midnight ending the census period" has the same meaning as is

assigned to it in the Census Order, 2021.

2021.

(Regulation 7)

Census of Population and Housing 2021

FORM OF OATH

I, __________________________________ swear/solemnly

affirm that I will fully and honestly fulfil my duties as an officer of the

Census in conformity with the requirements of the Malta Census Act

of 1948, and of all orders made thereunder, and that I will not, except

in the performance of my duties under the Act and such orders,

disclose or make known during my service as an officer of the Census

or at any time thereafter, any matter which comes to my knowledge

relating to any person, household or undertaking by reason of my

service as an officer of the Census. (So help me God).

Signature:___________________

Signed and sworn before me, this …… day of …………2021

…………………………………………

Census Officer

€2.61

The census officer shall divide Malta into localities and

where he deems necessary, he may also divide a locality into

enumeration areas.

(a) The census officer may appoint such number of

suitable persons as he may deem necessary to be deputy census

officers, district managers, supervisors and enumerators and he shall

assign localities and enumeration areas to them as he may deem

appropriate.

(b) Notice of the appointment of every deputy census officer,

district manager, supervisor and enumerator shall be published in the

Gazette.

(c)

Where it appears to the census officer that a deputy census

officer, district manager, supervisor or an enumerator is by reason of

illness or for any other reason, unfit to perform his duties under the

Act, the Census Order and these regulations, the census officer may

appoint some fit and proper person in his place to perform such

The census officer is empowered to nominate two (2) Duties of deputy

deputy census officers to assist him in the organization of the Census census officers.

as he deems appropriate.

The census officer is empowered to nominate seven(7) Duties of

district

district managers. Every district manager has the duty to

managers.

(a) follow the progress related to the census in his

district daily and to ensure that the supervisors are in line with

the schedule;

(b) give all the necessary instructions to the supervisors

that are within his district;

(c) resolve any technical or logical difficulties should

they arise in his district;

(d) ensure that should there be any difficulties to

collect the census questionnaires, then he shall call for the said

questionnaires and complete them personally;

(e) to inform regularly the census officers with the

progress of his district.

It shall be the duty of every supervisor

Duties of

supervisor.

(a) to give all necessary instructions to enumerators in

his locality or localities;

(b) to issue to enumerators all census forms and other

articles or equipment necessary for the taking of the census;

(c) to examine, before midnight ending the census

period, all entries made in census forms by enumerators and,

where it appears upon examination that any entry in any form is

defective or is missing, to require the enumerator responsible

for completing the forms to take steps to correct the defective

entry or to supply the missing entry before midnight ending the

census period;

(d) following midnight ending the census period, to

receive, examine and transmit to the census officer, all census

forms and other articles delivered to him by the enumerators of

his locality or localities;

(e) to compile administrative forms with respect to the

work of the enumerators in his locality or localities and to

witness such declarations by the same enumerators as the

census officer may in writing require him to do; and

(f) generally to carry out any instructions issued to him

by the census officer for the purpose of taking the census.

It shall be the duty of every enumerator

(a) to meet the census officer or supervisor of the

locality at such times and places as may be directed;

(b) to keep carefully any electronic devices, written

instructions, books, forms, documents, or any other articles or

things issued to him in connection with his duties and to

deliver them in good condition upon the termination of his

appointment or when called upon to do so;

(c) to ensure that data on all dwellings assigned is

collected and if necessary visit at all reasonable times in the

period between his appointment and the midnight ending the

census period housing accommodation in the locality,

enumeration area or areas to which he may be assigned and to

obtain all information necessary for completing the census

forms;

(d) to make further contact and, or visits to housing

accommodation when at a first visit the required information

cannot be obtained, or which may be directed by the supervisor

to revisit and, or re-contact for the purpose of supplying

omissions or correcting or verifying doubtful entries in the

census forms;

(e) after the midnight ending the census day again to

ensure to collect and if necessary contact and/or visit personally

at all reasonable times every housing accommodation in the

locality, enumeration area or areas to which he may be assigned

and by deleting, amending or adding to the entries previously

made in the forms specified in the First Schedule, to obtain a

true and complete account of

(i) all persons who were present at the midnight

ending the census day in the said housing

accommodation;

(ii) all persons who, at the midnight ending the

census day, were temporary absent from the housing

accommodation occupied by the household of which they

form part; and

(iii) the use which was being made at the midnight

ending the census day of all housing accommodation with

respect to which particulars are to be obtained;

(f) if so directed by the supervisor, to assist in the

performance of the duties of any enumerator in any other

locality or enumeration area;

(g) generally to carry out such instructions of the census

officer and of the supervisor of the locality as may be issued for

the purpose of taking the census

Provided that any locality or enumeration area in which the

enumerator may be assisted, at the direction of the supervisor, by any

other enumerator, paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) shall be understood to

apply jointly to the enumerator of the locality or enumeration area and

to such other enumerator.

Every supervisor and enumerator shall, before entering on Oath to be taken

his duties, make and subscribe in the presence of the census officer or by

and

deputy census officer, an oath in the form set out in the Second enumerators.

Schedule.

Every person with respect to whom census information is Duty to give

required to be furnished by article 5 of the Census Order shall give information.

such information with respect to himself or herself, upon demand, to

a Deputy census officer, district manager, supervisor or enumerator

duly appointed under regulation 4 of these regulations and acting

in accordance with his duties under regulation 5, 6, 7 or 8.

Every person being a person required by article 6 of the Duty to give

Census Order to furnish census information with respect to other information

with respect to

persons and to housing accommodation shall furnish such other

and to housing

information upon demand to a supervisor or enumerator duly accommodation.

appointed under regulation 5 of these regulations and acting in

accordance with his duties under regulation 6, 7 or 8.

Every person with respect to whom it is the duty of the Duty to give

person prescribed by article 7 of the Census Order to furnish census information

prescribed

information shall give the information upon demand to such persons.

prescribed persons

Provided that any person present at midnight ending the

census day on the premises of any hotel, boarding house, guest house,

hospital, nursing home or similar institution may, by oral request to the

supervisor or enumerator of the census locality or enumerating area or

by written application to the census officer, elect to furnish only his or

her name, status within the institution and sex, to the prescribed person

and the rest of the census information personally to the aforesaid

supervisor or enumerator.

The census forms shall contain the details specified in the

First Schedule or such elements thereof as the census officer may

deem appropriate.

The Census Regulations are hereby repealed.

FIRST SCHEDULE