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Census Information Legislation Amendment Bill 2006

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Type
Government
Portfolio
Treasury
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Act
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the:

Archives Act 1983
and
Census and Statistics Act 1905
to ensure that name-identified census information collected in all future censuses, from households which provide explicit consent, will be stored and preserved by the National Archives of Australia for release after a closed access period of 99 years; and
Census and Statistics Act 1905
to: make technical amendments as a consequence of the commencement of the
Legislative Instruments Act 2003
; and harmonise criminal offence provisions with those contained in the
Criminal Code Act 1995
.

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