The Census (England) Regulations 2010

Questionnaires

5.—(1) The duty of a prescribed person to make a return, set out in the Census Order, will only be discharged when a completed questionnaire has been received by the Authority.

(2) The questionnaire to be returned by a prescribed person mentioned in column (1) of the table in Schedule 1 must be the questionnaire that has the title specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that table and is set out under that title in Schedules 2 to 4.

(3) Each prescribed person must comply with the instructions contained in the questionnaire to be returned by them and provide such information as is requested in the questionnaire and which they are required to provide by the Census Order.

(4) A person who satisfies the conditions prescribed in article 5(5) of the Census Order and who elects, by giving notice which is received by the Authority, to complete an individual return may make that return on questionnaire I1.

(5) Each elector who returns questionnaire I1 must comply with the instructions contained in questionnaire I1 and provide all such information as is requested in that questionnaire.

(6) Every questionnaire must have the questionnaire identification marks printed on it and in the case of each questionnaire H1 and I1 must also have an internet access code printed on it which is unique to each particular questionnaire and will be used if the prescribed person returns the information requested in the questionnaire electronically.

(7) The Authority may provide an electronic system for keeping records of—

(a) the questionnaire identification marks for each questionnaire;

(b) the internet access code for each questionnaire H1 and I1;

(c) the household or communal establishment to which each questionnaire has been sent or delivered in accordance with these Regulations;

(d) the circumstances of the delivery of each regular individual, reply-paid individual, household and communal establishment pack delivered by a census officer;

(e) the date on which each questionnaire received by the Authority was received and the means by which it was received;

(f) the date on which any record is made in accordance with regulation 10(6) or 13(7) and the prescribed person with respect to whom it was made; and

(g) any other information which the Authority considers may assist with the conduct of the census.