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" No.

9 of 1960.

33 o BRITISH GUIANA.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

MADE UNDER THE CENSUS ORD[NANCE, 64).

(Chapter UNDER SECTION 2 (1) OF THE CENSUS O1<.DINANCE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL �S FOLLOWS :- 1.

This Order may be cited as the Census (General) Order, 1960.

Short title.

r tJ 0 ti othe1wise - requires Interpreta­ tion.
of time between four o'clock day and midnight of that day; 2. unless the context day" means the 7th April, night" In this Order, "census "census in the afternoon "returns" enumerators for the purpose means the period of census 1960; means the forms provided by the Census Officer to of the census; means the area described made by the Governor in the third under District" to the Proclamation of subsection "Rupununi schedule the provisions Government "West Indies" ions of France, lying between America, and between the fiftieth tude west of Greenwich.
Ordinance means the British the Netherlands possessions, or the possess­ or the United States of the Equator and the meridians and ninetieth Tropic of Cancer of longi­ (3) of section on the 26th October, 2 of the District 1936; Cap.

56.

3.A census for the Colony, the Rupununi District Census Day.

excluding 1960, in respect of all persons who are shall be taken on the 7th April, alive at midnight on that day.
4.The returns shall be completed the Census Officer in accordance nance, who pass census with respect night - to all persons by by enumerators with the provisions Returns to be completed of the Census Ordi­ by enumera­ who are alive on census night, and tors appointed Cap.

64.
64.

(a)at any place on land within (b)on any ship or boat, not being a ship registered the Colony; at a the West Indies, within the territorial waters port outside of the Colo�y; or (c)on any ship or boat, not the West Indies, which arrives five days following being a ship registered in the Colony census day without having at a port West Indian port since midnight on outside within called at any British day.

census 34 Persons by wholn Infor­ mation ls to be furnished.
5.Information referred the persons to in article for the purpose of the census with respect to 4 of this Order shall be furnished by­ to whom the returns are to be (a) the person with respect completed; (b)the householder or person in charge of every private dwelling with respect to all persons who pass census night on the premises of that dwelling; .. ( c)the proprietor or manager common lodging house, of every club, hotel, boarding school boarding­ or hostel house, with respect premises of those places; to all persons who pass census night on the (d)· the chief resident officer of every public or private nursing hos­ home, poor-house, religious or sanatorium, pital, charitable with respect premises home, industrial to all persons of those places; school or other institution who pass census night on the (e)the Officer in charge of every police station, with respect or other place of detention to all who pass census night on the premises of those prison, lock-up, persons places; for the purpose in (f) the officer or oth€r person appointed made between the Census Officer with respect of arrangements pursuance Officer and the Commanding persons belonging the Crown and any other persons in any barracks, station naval or air force discipline, or (g) the master of every ship or boat described who to the military, to all naval or air forces of who pass census night under military, 4 with respect to all persons or other premises in paragraphs 1 • (b)and (c) of article pass census night aboard that ship or boat.
ParticuJw-s to be stated in the returns.
6.The particulars (a)in respect to be stated of every private in the returns shall be as follow5,-­ the kind of dwell­ dwelling, ing and the number of rooms therein, the date occupancy, the water supply of the occupier, facilities; of first the rental, and the toilet the tenancy status (b) in respect of every person, (i)the name, relationship to head of household, sex, age, race, religion, marital status, normal place of residence, duration (ii)place of birth, of residence in the district, 4 (iii)highest (iv)main activity (economic during level of education attained, or uneconomic) the census day, number of months preced­ twelve months preceding months worked during the twelve ing census day, whether during the twelve months preceding census main occupation the twelve ing census day, whether employed during the week preceding census name and type of business fj) working for the first time day, day, employment months Qreced- of employer; status, during 0 (c) in respect of females, 35 (i)number of children (ii)age at birth of first child born alive, (iii)children born alive, born alive during the twelve months pre­ ceding census day, (iv)under 45 years of age, type of union and duration of such union, (v) over 45 years of age, type of union at 45 years of (d)in respect age and duration of children of that union at that age; attending school, of the school in which enrolled; denomination the name and (e)in respect ary, 1960- of every child born on or after the 1st Janu­ (i)the date of birth, place of birth and
 whether home, the place where the born in a hospital or nursing birth is registered birth, and the date of registr ation of (ii)the names of the father and mother, name of the mother, the ages of the mother, (iii)the rank or (iv)whether it is a single profession birth, of the father, one ot twins or one of the maiden father and triplets, in the register or has not yet been used, in the register but not (v)whether the name has been entered (vi) (vii) of births, or has been used in baptism entered the place of
 normal residence if baptised, baptised, the live birth order in the family; (f)in respect of every person in charge of a farm or plot of of the parents, the name of the church in which (viii) land, the area of such farm or plot of of every tenth household land; and in an enumeration (g)in respect the income groups to which the members of the district, household form set out in the first schedule tions, belong as specified in the "Income Card" to the Census Regula­ 1960.
Made in Council this 13th day of January, 1960.

IVAN H. SEELIG, Clerk to the Executive Council (Acting).

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(M.P.

G. 323/56 III (3))