Census (Return Particulars And Removal Of Penalties) Act 2019
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The Census (Return Particulars and Removal of Penalties) Act 2019 (c. 28) is an act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
. The act removed penalties for people not responding to new census questions on
sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generall ...
,
gender identity Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the i ...
(including transgender status).


Provisions

The provisions of the act include: *Amending the
Census Act 1920 The Census Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 41) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Providing for a census for Great Britain (or any subsidiary part of it), on a date to be fixed by Order in Council, it remains the primary legislation ...
to add questions on sexual orientation and gender identity to the census. *Amending the
Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 The Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (1969 c. 8) was an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, which was passed on 24 June 1969. It enabled ministers to order a census of population in Northern Ireland at intervals of five years or more. ...
to add questions on sexual orientation and gender identity to the census. *Making it voluntary to answer any such questions.


See also

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2021 United Kingdom census The decennial 2021 censuses of England and Wales and of Northern Ireland took place on 21 March 2021, and the census of Scotland took place on 20 March 2022. The censuses were administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in England an ...
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Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2019 The Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2019 is an act of the Scottish Parliament. The act made provisions for the inclusion of sexual orientation and transgender status in the Census. Provisions The provisions of the Act include: *Amending the C ...


References

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