Regulation 5 Purposes for which disclosure is authorised

Information disclosed under regulations 3 and 4 may only be used by the Statistics Board for the following statistical purposes—

(a)

the production of population statistics under section 20 (production of statistics) of the Act;

(b)

the making of arrangements for a census under section 2 of the Census Act 1920^f1 (duty of Registrar-General to carry out census, and provision for expenses); and

(c)

the assessment of the census returns.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1920 c.41; section 2 was amended by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c.18), Schedule 1, paragraph 2. Paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 substituted “the Statistics Board in relation to England and Wales and the Registrar General for Scotland in relation to Scotland” for “the Registrar-General”.