An Act to authorise the compilation of maps showing certain particulars relating to lands used for the purposes of agriculture, pastoral pursuits, timber-getting, and mining, and exempting persons giving information necessary for such compilation from penalty; to amend the Census Act 1901; and for other purposes incidental thereto.
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Statistical Maps Act 1905 and shall come into force two months after the date of its passing.
2 Interpretation
In this Act Statistician means Government Statistician, and includes the Acting Government Statistician.
3 Maps may be compiled and issued
Maps, by the authority of the Governor, may be compiled and issued for the purpose of public information or otherwise, showing:(a) the area of land used for the purposes of the following industries, namely, agriculture, pastoral pursuits, timber-getting, and mining respectively,(b) the nature of such industry,(c) the yield per acre from such industry:Provided that if the information has been supplied to the Statistician under the provisions of the Census Act 1901 or has been obtained under any promise of secrecy, the owner of any such land may, at any time after the passing of this Act and before it comes into force, notify, in writing, the Statistician that the owner objects to such information being divulged with reference to the owner’s land.If such notice is so given, no such information regarding that land shall be published.The notice may be served on the Statistician personally or sent by post.
4 Exemption from penalty for giving necessary information
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Census Act 1901, any officer, enumerator, collector, or other person employed under that Act, divulging the contents of any householder’s schedule or any return or information furnished under that Act, necessary to, and for the purposes of such compilation, and not objected to in accordance with the provisions of the last preceding section, shall be exempt from any penalty.