Census and Statistics (Population and Housing) Notice 2016 (Cth)

Census and Statistics (Population and Housing) Notice 2016 I, David W. Kalisch, Australian Statistician, make the following notice.

Dated 1 April 2016

David W. Kalisch Australian Statistician

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2—Persons required to supply statistical information 5 Persons who must be included on a Census form 6 Exception for certain visitors to Australia

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This is the Census and Statistics (Population and Housing) Notice 2016.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 10(2) of the Census and Statistics Act 1905.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) authorised officer; (b) Bureau; (c) Census day; (d) Statistician. In this instrument: Act means the Census and Statistics Act 1905. Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes: (a) Norfolk Island; and (b) the Territory of Christmas Island; and (c) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Australian citizen has the meaning given by the Australian Citizenship Act 2007. Australian permanent resident has the meaning given by the Migration Regulations 1994. Census night means the night of the Census day for a Census. occupier, in relation to a private dwelling, includes a tenant or resident owner of the dwelling but does not include a non‑resident owner. private dwelling means a dwelling other than: (a) a hotel, motel, hostel or boarding house; or (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; or (c) a religious institution; or (d) a residential institution; or (e) a vessel, other than a houseboat, used in navigation by water. required details means: (a) for a person—the details that the person is required to include in a Census Household Form or Census Personal Form by the instructions given in the form; or (b) for a private dwelling—the details that an occupier of the dwelling is required to include in a Census Household Form by the instructions given in the form. residential institution includes a hospital, nursing home, school, university, college, orphanage, house of refuge, prison or other penal or corrective institution.