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CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE (PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION) REGULATIONS
Table of Provisions (9)
Statutory Text (9 Articles)
CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES (PERIOD
OF AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 477.01
CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE (PERIOD OF
AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION)
REGULATIONS
15th January, 2015
LEGAL NOTICE 20 of 2015.
The title of these regulations is the Census Questionnaires
(Period of Availability for Public Inspection) Regulations.
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -
"Act" means the National Archives Act;
"Census Officer" has the same meaning assigned to it in the
Census Act;
"Commissioner" has the same meaning assigned to it in the Data
Protection Act;
"Final Report" means the final report of the Census of Population
published by the National Statistics Office;
"National Archives" has the same meaning assigned to it in the
Act;
"National Archivist" has the same meaning assigned to it in the
Act;
"sensitive personal data" has the same meaning assigned to it in
the Data Protection Act;
"third party" has the same meaning assigned to it in the Data
Protection Act.
For the purposes of these regulations, the census shall be
deemed to be concluded when the Final Report is made public and
such publication date shall be considered as the date when the said
census is concluded.
The Census Officer, after the conclusion of a census, shall
deposit all the relative questionnaires and documents at the
National Archives.
The National Archivist shall register the year of census,
and retain custody over these questionnaires and documents.
Public records consisting of census questionnaires or other
related documents which are deposited in the National Archives or
in any other archival repository shall be available for public
inspection in accordance with the provisions of the Act after the
expiration of a period of one hundred years from the date when the
said census is concluded.
During the period mentioned in regulation 6, the ownership
of census questionnaires and related documents deposited in the
National Archives shall vest in the Census Officer, who may
authorise any of his employees to access such questionnaires and
CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES (PERIOD
OF AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION)
related documents.
The Census Officer may, following consultation with the
National Archivist and the Commissioner, where he is satisfied that
a third party requires access to the census questionnaires and
related documents for the purposes of research and statistics, grant
his consent for the said access provided that
(a) a period of thirty years has elapsed from the date when
the said census is concluded; and
(b) where such research concerns sensitive personal data,
approval by the Commissioner is obtained in
accordance with article 16 of the Data Protection Act.