The Census (England) Regulations 2020

Requests for census packs and replacement unique access codes

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12.—(1) If the conditions in paragraph (2) are met, the Authority must provide any census pack or a replacement unique access code to any prescribed person who requests one.

(2) Those conditions are that—

(a)in the opinion of the Authority the census pack or the replacement unique access code is relevant to that prescribed person; and

(b)the person making the request provides the Authority with the address where the prescribed person (or persons) in respect of whom the questionnaire is to be completed, is a usual resident (and in this provision, “the questionnaire” means the questionnaire relating to the requested census pack or the replacement unique access code).

(3) The Authority must provide any census pack under paragraph (1) to the address referred to in paragraph (2)(b) and may send such census pack by post or deliver it by hand to that address.

(4) The Authority may provide a replacement unique access code under paragraph (1) by—

(a)sending it by post or delivering it by hand (and in either case the Authority must send or deliver the replacement unique access code to the address referred to in paragraph (2)(b)); or

(b)sending it directly to a mobile telephone number provided by the person making the request for the replacement unique access code.