Regolamenti dwar iċ-Ċensiment

ĊENSIMENT

LEĠISLAZZJONI SUSSIDJARJA 118.03

REGOLAMENTI DWAR IĊ-ĊENSIMENT

9 ta’ Novembru, 2021

L-AVVIŻ LEGALI 427 tal-2021.

The title of these regulations is the Census Regulations.

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;

"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;

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

assigned to it in the Census Order.

(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

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 duties.

The census officer is empowered to nominate two (2)

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

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as he deems appropriate.

The census officer is empowered to nominate seven(7)

district managers. Every district manager has the duty to

(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

(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.

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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

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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 his duties, make and subscribe in the presence of the census

officer or deputy census officer, an oath in the form set out in the

Second Schedule.

Every person with respect to whom census information

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

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

Census Order to furnish census information with respect to other

persons and to housing accommodation shall furnish such

information upon demand to a supervisor or enumerator duly

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

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

information shall give the information upon demand to such

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.

FIRST SCHEDULE