Schedule 5 Form of undertaking

All individuals working on the 2021 Census are subject to confidentiality requirements set out in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 and Data Protection Legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018). This includes personal information from the 2021 Census and any other previous censuses as well as data from administrative and survey sources.

Breaching the provisions of this legislation is a criminal offence and could result in prosecution which, if found guilty, would mean that you would have a criminal record and be liable to a fine and/or up to two years imprisonment.