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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-order-1990/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-order-1990/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/243",
  "legislation_title": "The Census Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-order-1990",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons with respect to whom the returns are to be made",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of that census, returns shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Order with respect to:–\n(a) all persons in Great Britain,\n(b) all other persons who are usually resident in Great Britain in a dwelling or part of a dwelling (including a caravan, houseboat or other temporary building or structure used as living accommodation) occupied by a private household (whether consisting of one or more persons) but who do not spend census night in Great Britain, and\n(c) the persons specified in paragraph (2)\nwho are alive at midnight ending census day.\n(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1)(c) as being specified in this paragraph are persons who spend census night on one of Her Majesty’s ships or vessels as defined by the Naval Discipline Act 1957, which is within the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain at midnight ending census day.\n(3) A return with respect to any person to whom paragraph (1) applies shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Order relating to each premises, vessel or other place in column (1) of Schedule 1 at which that person spends census night or, as the case may be, arrives or is usually resident as mentioned in column (2) of that Schedule, and the return shall be so made in the form prescribed by regulations made under section 3 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/243/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:28:03.071559+00:00",
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    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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