- Date
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03 Nov 2005
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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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
.