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
.