{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/307",
  "legislation_title": "The Census Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Census Act 1920;\n“assistant census officer” means an officer appointed under regulation 4(1)(c);\n“the census” means the census directed to be taken by the Census Order 1990 (hereinafter referred to as “the Census Order”);\n“census area manager” means an officer appointed under regulation 4(1)(a);\n“census day” means 21st April 1991;\n“census district” means a district so referred to in regulation 3;\n“census officer” means an officer appointed under regulation 4(1)(b);\n“enumeration district” means a district so referred to in regulation 3;\n“enumerator” means an officer appointed as such under regulation 4(1)(d);\n“officer” means a person appointed under regulation 4;\n“prescribed person” means a person required by the Census Order to make a return;\n“Registrar General” means the Registrar General for England and Wales.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference to a form, where it is followed immediately by an identifying letter, is a reference to the form of return which is identified by that letter and which is set out in Schedule 3.\n(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, in these Regulations a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations bearing that number, and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.\n(4) These Regulations shall not extend to Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/243."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/307/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:27:32.489986+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}