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Census (Jersey) Law 1951: Amendment: Law drafting instructions

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A decision made 8 November 2013:

Decision Reference: MD-C-2013-0129

Decision Summary Title :

Law drafting instructions to amend the Census (Jersey) Law 1951

Date of Decision Summary:

8th November 2013

Decision Summary Author:

 

 

Chief Statistician

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Oral

Person Giving

Oral Report:

 Chief Statistician

Written Report

Title :

N/A

Date of Written Report:

N/A

Written Report Author:

N/A

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

N/A

Subject:  Law drafting instructions to amend the Census (Jersey) Law 1951

Decision(s): The Minister approved the forwarding of law drafting instructions to the Law Draftsman for amendment to the Census (Jersey) Law 1951.

Reason(s) for Decision: The changes proposed would allow a defined and limited amount of departmental administrative data to be shared with the Statistics Unit to enable an electronic approach to the population census to be undertaken based on administrative data sources, in addition to the traditional questionnaire-based census approach.

Resource Implications:  There are no financial or manpower implications arising from this decision

Action required: Chief Statistician to forward drafting instructions for such an amendment to the Law Draftsman.

Signature:

 

Position: 

 

 

 

Chief Minister

Date Signed:

 

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

 

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