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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 118.02
CENSUS REGULATIONS
17th November, 1975
LEGAL NOTICE 166 of 1995.
Title.
Interpretation. 
Cap. 118.
"census forms" means the forms prescribed in regulation 11;
"locality" and "enumeration areas" mean such sections of Malta
as may be determined by the census officer under regulation 3;
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"midnight ending the census day" has the same meaning as is
assigned to it in the Census Order;
"census information" means all information necessary for the
making of true and accurate entries in census forms.
Locality and 
enumeration areas.
3. The census officer shall divide Malta into localities and
where he deems necessary he may also divide a locality into
enumeration areas.
Appointment of 
supervisors and 
enumerators.
4. (1) The census officer may appoint such number of
suitable persons as he may deem necessary to be supervisors and
enumerators and he shall assign localities and enumeration areas to
them as he may deem appropriate.
(2) Notice of the appointment of every supervisor and
enumerator shall be published in the Gazette.
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(3) Where it appears to the census officer that a supervisor or
an enumerator is by reason of illness or for any other reason, unfit
to perform his duties under the Act, the Census Order and these
Regulations, the census officer may appoint some fit and proper
person in his place to perform such duties.
Duties of 
supervisors.
5. It shall be the duty of every supervisor - 
( a ) to give all necessary instructions to enumerators in his
locality or localities;
( b ) to issue to enumerators all census forms and other
articles necessary for the taking of the census;
( c ) to examine, before midnight ending the census day, all
entries made in census forms by enumerators and
where it appears, upon examination, that any entry in
any form is defective or is missing, to require the
enumerator responsible for completing the forms to
take steps to correct the defective entry or to supply
the missing entry before midnight ending the census
day;
( d ) following midnight ending the census day, to receive,
examine and transmit to the census officer, all census
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forms and other articles delivered to him by the
enumerators of his locality or localities;
( e ) to provide such written reports and certificates with
respect to the work of the enumerators in his locality
or localities and to witness such declarations by the
same enumerators as the census officer may in writing
require him to do; and
( f ) generally to carry out any instructions issued to him by
the census officer for the purpose of taking the census.
Duties of 
enumerators.
6. It shall be the duty of every enumerator -
( a ) to meet the census officer or supervisor of the locality
at such times and places as may be directed;
( b ) to keep carefully any written instructions, books,
forms, documents, or any other articles or things
issued to him in connection with his duties and to
deliver them in good condition upon the termination of
his appointment or when called upon to do so;
( c ) to visit personally at all reasonable times in the period
between his appointment and the midnight ending the
census day every housing accommodation in the
locality, enumeration area or areas to which he may be
assigned and to obtain all information necessary for
completing the census forms;
( d ) to make further visits to housing accommodation when
at a first visit the required information cannot be
obtained, or to which he may be directed by the
supervisor to revisit for the purpose of supplying
omissions or correcting or verifying doubtful entries in
the census forms;
( e ) after the midnight ending the census day to visit
personally again at all reasonable times every housing
accommodation in the locality, enumeration area or
areas to which he may be assigned and by deleting,
amending or adding to the entries previously made in
the forms specified in the First Schedule, to obtain a
true and complete account of -
(i) all persons who were present at the midnight
ending the census day in the said housing
accommodation;
(ii) all persons who, at the midnight ending the
census day, were absent from the housing
accommodation occupied by the household of
which they form part; and
(iii) the use which was being made at the midnight
ending the census day of all housing
accommodation with respect to which
particulars are to be obtained;
( f ) if so directed by the supervisor, to assist in the
performance of the duties of any enumerator in any
other locality or enumeration area;
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( g ) generally to carry out such instructions of the census
officer and of the supervisor of the locality as may be
issued for the purpose of taking the census:
Provided that in any locality or enumeration area in which
the enumerator may be assisted, at the direction of the supervisor,
by any other enumerator, paragraphs ( c ), ( d ) and ( e ) shall be
understood to apply jointly to the enumerator of the locality or
enumeration area and to such other enumerator.
Oath to be taken by 
supervisors and 
enumerators.
7. Every supervisor and enumerator shall, before entering on
his duties, make and subscribe in the presence of the census officer
an oath in the form set out in the Second Schedule.
Duty to give 
information.
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8. Every person with respect to whom census information is
required to be furnished by article 4 of the Census Order shall give
such information with respect to himself or herself, upon demand,
to a supervisor or enumerator duly appointed under regulation 4
and acting in accordance with his duties under regulation 5 or 6.
Duty to give 
information with 
respect to other 
persons and to 
housing 
accommodation.
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9. Every person being a person required by article 5 of the
Census Order to furnish census information with respect to other
persons and to housing accommodation shall furnish such
information upon demand to a supervisor or enumerator duly
appointed under regulation 4 and acting in accordance with his
duties under regulation 5 or 6.
Duty to give 
information to 
prescribed persons.
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10. Every person with respect to whom it is the duty of the
person prescribed by article 5 of the Census Order to furnish census
information shall give the information upon demand to such
prescribed persons: 
Provided that any person present at midnight ending the
census day on the premises of any hotel, boarding house, guest
house, hospital, nursing home or similar institution may, by oral
request to the supervisor or enumerator of the census locality or
enumerating area or by written application to the census officer,
elect to furnish only his or her name, status within the institution
and sex, to the prescribed person and the rest of the census
information personally to the aforesaid supervisor or enumerator.
Census forms. 
First Schedule or such elements thereof as the census officer may
deem appropriate.
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FIRST SCHEDULE
(Regulation 11)
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SECOND SCHEDULE
(Regulation 7)
Population and Housing Census 1995
FORM OF OATH
I .................................................................................. solemnly swear that I will
faithfully and honestly fulfil my duties as ...................................... in conformity
with the requirements of the Census Regulations, and of all orders, rules and
instructions issued in pursuance thereof and that I will not, without due authority in
that behalf, disclose or make known in any manner whatsoever any matter or thing
which comes to my knowledge by reason of my employment as such.
So help me God.
Signature ................................................
Sworn before me
....................................... 1995 ................................................
Census Officer.
