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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/243",
  "legislation_title": "The Census Order 1990",
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  "path": "schedule/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\nPremises, vessel or other place\nPersons\nGROUP I\nAny 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).\nEvery person who–(a) spends census night in the dwelling or the part of the dwelling whether as a member of the household, guest, paying guest or boarder or as an employee of any such person;\n(b) arrives at the dwelling or the part of the dwelling at any time during the day immediately following census day but before the returns with respect to the persons in the dwelling are collected, who was in Great Britain at midnight ending census day and who has not been included as present in any other return; (c) not being a person to whom paragraph (a) or (b) above refers, is usually resident in the dwelling or the part of the dwelling but who does not spend census night there.\nGROUP II\nAny hotel or boarding-house.\nEvery person who–(a) spends census night in the premises;\n(b) arrives at the premises at any time during the day immediately following census day but before the returns with respect to the persons in the premises are collected, who was in Great Britain at midnight ending census day and who has not been included as present in any other return.\nGROUP III\nAny hospital, nursing home, religious or charitable community, residential school or college, civil prison or other place of detention or other residential establishment whatsoever, not being an establishment mentioned elsewhere in this Schedule.\nEvery person who–(a) spends census night in the premises;\n(b) arrives at the premises at any time during the day immediately following census day but before the returns with respect to the persons in the premises are collected, who was in Great Britain at midnight ending census day and who has not been included as present in any other return.\nGROUP IV\nAny vessel, barracks, station or other premises under naval, military or air force discipline.\nEvery person who–(a) spends census night on the vessel or in the premises;\n(b) arrives at the vessel or premises at any time during the day immediately following census day but before the returns with respect to the persons on the vessel or in the premises are collected, who was in Great Britain at midnight ending census day and who has not been included as present in any other return.\nGROUP V\nAny vessel not included in Group IV.\nEvery person who–(a) spends census night on the vessel;\n(b) arrives at the vessel at any time during the day immediately following census day but before the returns with respect to the persons on the vessel are collected, who was in Great Britain at midnight ending census day and who has not been included as present in any other return.\nGROUP VI\nAny other place not included in the above Groups.\nEvery person who spends census night in any such place.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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