Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991

Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991[1]Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to make provision with respect to the unlawful disclosure of information acquired in connection with the discharge of functions under the Census Act 1920; and for connected purposes.
Citation| 1991 c. 6
Territorial extent | Section 2 extends to Northern Ireland only. The rest of the act extends to Great Britain and does not extend to Northern Ireland.[2]
Dates
Royal assent| 7 March 1991
Commencement| 7 March 1991
Other legislation
Amends| Census Act 1920

Status: Current legislation

Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991 (c. 6) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gained royal assent on 7 March 1991.

The act amended section 8 of the Census Act 1920 by replacing a subsection concerning penalties for the unlawful disclosure of personal information from the census.

Census (Confidentiality) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991

Statutory Instrument

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Citation| SI 1991/760
Dates
Made| 20 March 1991
Laid before Parliament| 3 April 1991
Commencement| 22 April 1991
Other legislation
Made under| Northern Ireland Act 1974
Text of statute as originally enacted

The act applies to Great Britain. Separate legislation in the form of the Census (Confidentiality) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (SI 1991/760) exists for Northern Ireland.

## See also

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* Census in the United Kingdom
* Census (Amendment) Act 2000

## References

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* "Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991". Current Law Statutes Annotated 1991. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 1991. Volume 1. Chapter 6.
* "The Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991". Halsbury's Statutes of England. Third Edition. Butterworths. London. 1992. Binder 61: Continuation Binder 1991. Page 63.
* Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition Reissue. Volume 39(2). Para 634.
* Stan Openshaw. Census Users' Handbook. GeoInformation International. Pearson Professional Limited. 1995. p 400. Google
* John Stilwell. The Routledge Handbook of Census Resources, Methods and Applications. Routledge. 2018. p 135.
* "Treasury – Census", The Parliamentary Monitor 21
* Rex Sinnott, "The Census and Privacy in New Zealand" (April 2000) Archifacts 25 at 31
* Catherine Heeney. "Ethical challenges in the big data environment". Alistair S Duff (ed). Research Handbook on Information Policy. Edward Elgar. 2021. p 401.
* (1991) 54 Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, p 6. [1] [2]
* "An introduction to the OPCS Longitudinal Study" (1993) 25 Environment & Planning A 1387 at 1391
* Herman Wheeler. Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing. Routledge. London and New York. 2012. p 218.
* The 1991 Census User's Guide. HMSO. 1993. p 115. Google

1. ^ The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 3(1) of this act.
2. ^ The Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991, section 3(2)

## External links

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* Text of the Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

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