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2000 No. 3351

CENSUS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Census (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

20th December 2000

Laid before Parliament

21st December 2000

Coming into force

11th January 2001

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of powers conferred by section 3(1) of the Census Act 1920(1) and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Census (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 11th January 2001.

Amendment of the Census Regulations 2000

2.  For forms H1, H2, I1 and I2 set out in Schedule 2 to the Census Regulations 2000(3) (forms of return for 2001 Census) there shall be substituted forms H1, H2, I1 and I2 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Melanie Johnson

Economic Secretary to the Treasury

20th December 2000

Regulation 2

SCHEDULENew Forms of Return to be substituted in Schedule 2 to the Census Regulations 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Census Regulations 2000 which provide for the detailed arrangements necessary for the conduct of the 2001 Census.

Regulation 2 substitutes new forms H1, H2, I1 and I2 for forms H1, H2, I1 and I2 in Schedule 2 to the Census Regulations 2000. The new forms differ from the old in consequence of the Census (Amendment) Act 2000 and now include a question on religion and a reference to that question in the front page comments above the signature of the Registrar General. In other respects the forms are unaltered.

(1)

1920 c. 41. Section 3(1) was amended by the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), by section 1(1) of, and Part XVI of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c. 50) and by the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273).

(2)

See articles 3(1) and 5(1) of, paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 1 to, and paragraph 3(1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to, the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996. The powers to make Regulations under section 3(1) in relation to Scotland were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(3)

S.I. 2000/1473.

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