THE GILBERT ISLANDS

Census (Amendment) Ordinance 1978
(No. 14 OF 1978)

I assent.

R.J. WALLACE
Governor
January, 1979

AN ORDINANCE

TO AMEND THE CENSUS ORDINANCE BY PROVIDING FOR MATTERS IN RESPECT OF WHICH PARTICULARS MAY BE REQUIRED ADDITIONAL TO THOSE PRESCRIBED BY THE SCHEDULE TO THE CENSUS ORDINANCE

Commencement: 11 January 1979

ENACTED by the Governor with the advice and consent of the House of Assembly:-

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Census (Amendment) Ordinance 1978.

Amendment of the Schedule to CAP. 16.

2. The Schedule to the Census Ordinance is amended by inserting the following matters in respect of which returns shall be required to be stated on any census return:

"7A	Mortality	
7B	Economic resources	
7C	Education".	

This printed impression has been carefully examined by me with the Bill which passed the House of Assembly on the 21st day of December 1978 and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

MATITA TANIERA
Clerk to the House of Assembly

Published by exhibition at the Public Office of the Governor this 12th day of January 1979.

KOMERI ONORIO
for Secretary to the Chief Minister

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CENSUS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1978

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. The Census ordinance is the authority for obtaining the particulars necessary for an official enumeration of the population with statistics relating to them.

2. The Bill extends the matters in respect of which particulars may be required to those relating to mortality, economic resources and education.

HON. GEOFFREY PINK
Attorney General