Statutory Instrument 2000
No. 3249
The Census (Amendment) Order 2000

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2000 No. 3249

CENSUS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Census (Amendment) Order 2000

Made
13th December 2000

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of December 2000

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of section 1(2) of the Census Act 1920[1] and section 6(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946[2], and during the period of forty days beginning with the day on which a copy of the draft of the Order was laid before each House of Parliament neither House resolved that the draft should not be submitted to Her Majesty:

     Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 1(1) of the Census Act 1920 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: - 

Citation
     1. This Order may be cited as the Census (Amendment) Order 2000.

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the Census Order 2000
     2. In Schedule 2 to the Census Order 2000[3] (particulars to be stated in returns) after item 9 there shall be inserted the following item - 
     " 9A. As regards religion, whether - 
(a) None,

(b) Christian,

(c) Buddhist,

(d) Hindu,

(e) Jewish,

(f) Muslim,

(g) Sikh, or

(h) any other religion, if so stating which.".
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council.

EXPLANATORY NOTE 

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Census Order 2000 which provides for the taking of a census for England and Wales on 29th April 2001, which specifies the persons by whom and with respect to whom the census returns are to be made and which sets out the particulars to be stated in the returns.

Article 2 inserts into Schedule 2 to that Order a new item 9A which specifies religion as a particular to be stated in the returns.

Notes:

[1] 1920 c. 41.back 
[2] 1946 c. 36; section 6(2) was modified by article 3(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1096).back 
[3] S.I. 2000/744.back 

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