The Census (Wales) Regulations 2020

Delivery of packs to households and electors by hand

10.—(1) The Authority must issue every census co-ordinator with—

(a) a census electronic device for use in each enumeration district within that census co-ordinator’s census co-ordinator area;

(b) such household packs and individual packs as it considers necessary for the purpose of the census;

(c) a list, contained in the fieldwork management tool, of the addresses of each household and elector in the address register situated within that census co-ordinator’s census co-ordinator area to which household packs and individual packs (as appropriate) are to be delivered by hand pursuant to regulation 9(2);

(d) such other documents or information as it considers necessary for the purpose of the census.

(2) Each census co-ordinator must—

(a) designate a census officer to deliver household packs and individual packs to each enumeration district;

(b) supply that census officer with such of, and sufficient numbers of, the items in paragraph (1)(a) to (d) as the census officer requires to carry out that census officer’s duties under these Regulations.

(3) Each census officer designated under paragraph (2)(a) must then deliver—

(a) a household pack or an individual pack to each household or elector (as the case may be) whose address is contained in the list of addresses referred to in paragraph (1)(c) and located within that census officer’s enumeration district;

(b) household packs and individual packs (as appropriate) to any other households or electors that are identified by the census officer in that census officer’s enumeration district.

(4) A census officer’s duty to deliver a census pack under paragraph (3) is satisfied in relation to each household if the census officer hands a household pack to the householder or joint householder, and in relation to each elector if the census officer hands an individual pack to the elector or, in either case, where no such person is available, if the census officer—

(a) leaves the census pack with a responsible person who claims to act on behalf of the householder, joint householder or elector (as the case may be), or

(b) where no such responsible person is available, leaves the census pack at, or sends it by post to, the relevant address contained in the fieldwork management tool or, if so directed by the census co-ordinator, to another address provided by the census co-ordinator.

(5) Each census officer must—

(a) make a record in the census electronic device of—

(i) each household pack and individual pack delivered in accordance with paragraph (3)(a) or (b), and

(ii) any additional household or elector to which, or to whom, the census officer has delivered a census pack under paragraph (3)(b);

(b) enable the census co-ordinator to have access to the information recorded in or accessed through the census officer’s census electronic device.

(6) Nothing in this regulation prevents a census officer from being designated to deliver to more than one enumeration district.