Commonwealth legislation

Census Regulations 1910, No. 2 (Provisional)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

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Act Number

95 of 1910

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These 1910 regulations added highly personal financial and lifestyle questions to the Australian Census. Made urgently by the Governor-General as Provisional Regulations (meaning they took effect immediately) under the Census and Statistics Act 1905, they required every household to answer:

Exact wages or salary currently earned (daily, weekly or monthly)
Total income earned during the previous year
Average working hours per week or day during that year
Exact cash holdings at midnight before Census Day (broken down into gold, banknotes, silver and copper coins)
Alcohol consumption — specifically whether each person is a total abstainer

These questions were added to the standard census forms (called "Householders' Schedules") on top of the details already required by the Act.

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Census Regulations 1910, No. 2 (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 95.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS ACT 1905.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following regulations under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 should come into immediate operation, and make the regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated the 27th day of October, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KING O’MALLEY,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

Census Regulations.

1. The Regulations may be cited as the Census Regulations 1910, No. 2.

2. The Householders’ Schedules shall, in addition to the particulars specified in section 12 of the Act and to the particulars provided for by any other Regulation, include the following matters in relation to persons:—

(i.) The amount of salary or wages being earned per day, or per week, or per month, at the time of the Census.

(ii.) The total amount so earned during the year ending the 31st day of December preceding the Census.

(iii.) The average number of hours worked per week, or per day, during the year ending on 31st December preceding the Census.

(iv.) The amount of money held in gold, in notes, in silver, and in copper at the moment of midnight preceding Census Day.

(v.) Whether the person is a total abstainer from alcoholic beverages.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.14282.—Price 3d.

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1 Census Regulations 1910, No. 2 (Provisional)