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      <p>CENSUS AND STATISTICS.</p>
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        <b>No. 74 of 1946.</b>
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      <p>An Act to amend the <i>Census and Statistics Act </i>1905-1938.</p>
      <p>[Assented to 14th December, 1946.]</p>
      <p>[Date of commencement, 11th January, 1947.]</p>
      <p>BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—</p>
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        <b>Short title and citation.</b>
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      <p><b>1.</b>—(1.)	This Act may be cited as the <i>Census and Statistics Act </i>1946.</p>
      <p>(2.)	The <i>Census and Statistics Act </i>1905-1938, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the <i>Census and Statistics Act </i>1905-1946.</p>
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        <num>2</num>
        <heading>Particulars to schedule.</heading>
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          <p><b>2.</b><b>	</b>Section twelve of the <i>Census and Statistics Act </i>1905-1938 is amended—</p>
          <p>(<i>a</i>)<i> </i>by omitting from paragraph (<i>a</i>)<i> </i>the words “sickness or infirmity,”; and</p>
          <p>(<i>b</i>)<i> </i>by omitting from that paragraph the word “, education,”.</p>
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