Government Decree No. 224 / 1949 Coll.
Regulation on census in 1950 and lists associated with it (national census)
Valid
Effective from 29.10.1949
224.
Government Regulation
of 18 October 1949
on the census in 1950 and the census associated with it (on the national census).
The Government of the Czechoslovak Republic orders pursuant to § 2 of the Act of 17 March 1927, No. 47 Coll., on the census:
General provisions.
(1) The third census shall be held on 1 March 1950; the deadline is midnight from February 28 to March 1.
(2) The census of the people is associated with the inventory of houses and apartments, the inventory of agricultural plants and the inventory of industrial and commercial establishments. The census, together with the inventories associated with it, is referred to as "national census' for its particular importance for the single economic plan.
Each person shall be required to provide the correct and timely details of all data required of him at the national census.
National census is managed by the Ministry of the Interior and implemented by the National Committees.
(1) For the purposes of the national census, the district national committees shall divide the territory of each municipality into the census circuits.
(2) For each census circuit, the district national committee shall appoint the census commissioner (hereinafter referred to as "the Commissioner ') and for several census circuits the census supervisor (hereinafter referred to as" the controller').
(3) For Commissioners and inspectors, Czechoslovak citizens older than 18 can be appointed, who are upstanding and guarantee that they will do their job correctly, accurately and in time. Everyone is obliged to take over as Commissioner at his place of residence (Revisora) if there are no serious reasons for which he may be relieved.
(4) The function of Commissioner and Revisor is a public function. In carrying out it, Commissioners and inspectors shall enjoy protection as public officials in accordance with the relevant criminal rules. The District National Committee gives them official ID, authorizing them to enter the property where they are to add up. In order to examine the data on the aggregated facts, Commissioners and auditors are entitled to request personal and other documents to be consulted.
(5) For the summation work, Commissioners and inspectors shall receive a remuneration from the District National Committee, graded according to the scale and nature of the task performed. The directive for determining remuneration shall be issued by the Ministry of the Interior in agreement with the Ministry of Finance.
Detailed directives and instructions on how to carry out preparatory work as well as the national census, as well as the census forms, shall be issued by the Ministry of Interior in agreement with the State Office of Planning and with the participating ministries.
The results of the national census are processed, mainly taken into account for the purposes of the planned economy, the State Statistical Office and the Slovak Planning Office according to its instructions. These results shall be published in the official publications of the State Statistical Office, after the Slovak Planning Office.
The census.
(1) A census shall be collected for each person who, at the relevant time (§ 1), is present in the national territory with his name and surname, presence in the municipality (permanent or temporary presence, temporary absence), from where and when he moved in, the ratio to the person who heads the household, sex, date of birth, family status, nationality, nationality, religion (without religion), school education, personal profession (main and secondary), position in the profession and job (name - company of the establishment, office or institute, field of activity and workplace, current and former affiliation to the social group; the total number of employees).
(2) In addition, the number of children born live and the date of the last marriage shall be determined in the case of the marriage.
(1) The census is held by the census sheets.
(2) For each apartment there is a special addition sheet; total persons shall be entered in the census sheets both at their place of residence and at their place of temporary residence.
(3) The census sheet shall be completed by the owner (user) of the apartment or, with its consent, by a member of its household. The Regional National Committee may determine, taking account of the local circumstances in which the Commissioner needs to fill in the totals.
(4) Also elsewhere, the Commissioner is obliged to fill out the census sheet, if it has not been filled out by the owner (user) of the apartment or by anyone in his household either at all or properly.
(1) Persons residing at the relevant time (§ 1) in accommodation (enterprises) serving business accommodation of persons (e.g. hotels, pensions, dormitories, etc.), or in institutions and facilities providing otherwise for pay or free accommodation (e.g. hospitals and other medical and nursing institutions, spa facilities, monasteries, prison institutions, forced labour camps and so on.), shall enter in the common census sheet the person responsible for managing the institution or establishment or its representative.
(2) The common census sheet shall first indicate the staff of the Institute or the establishment if they do not have their own apartment (paragraph 4), then the other residents (guests, inmates, nurses, members, etc.).
(3) In hotels, pubs, pensions, dormitories and accommodation, the operator shall fill in special guest census lists (excluding staff) containing the same questions as the census sheet. The data recorded in guest census lists are converted into a common census sheet.
(4) The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 3 shall not apply to persons who live in special apartments in accommodation establishments and who are registered in the census sheet for their apartment only.
(5) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the census of members of the military and the National Security Corps.
A list of houses and apartments.
(1) Questions about the facts ascertained at the inventory of houses and flats include a "home sheet."
(2) The home sheet shall be completed by the owner or his representative. Otherwise, the provisions of § 8 (3) and (4) apply.
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(2) Housing houses and other permanent buildings are subject to an inventory even if they are not occupied at the relevant time (§ 1). Moveable and emergency dwellings, such as nomadic carriages, boats, guard cabins, garden houses, rock dwellings, stables and barns, are only added if someone has slept in them at the relevant time (§ 1).
(1) The number and description of all residential or residential buildings on the same plot shall be collected for the listing of houses and flats. Each house (each human residence) is identified: the name, surname and occupation of the owner, after the case of the national administrator, and the type of dwelling (main purpose of the construction).
(2) In Slovakia, the age of the construction, the predominant building and the housing of the construction are also determined.
(3) Each apartment is examined: the name, surname and occupation of the owner (user) of the apartment, the legal title of the apartment, the location of the apartment in the house, the rooms used together with other apartments, the number and type of rooms in the apartment, the area of the apartment, the installation and, for rental and cooperative apartments, the rent with all charges for 1949.
(4) Each accommodation or establishment shall be identified: name of the establishment or establishment, number and type of rooms, area and installation.
List of agricultural plants.
(1) The following groups of census characteristics shall be collected in the inventory of agricultural establishments: ownership, personal data of the operator and members of his family, labour force, total area of the plant according to legal title and distribution of land by culture, crop area, fruit trees, shrubs and nurseries, livestock, plant and animal production, feed consumption, fertiliser consumption, plant productivity, sales, farm machinery and technical equipment, cooperative membership, as well as some other issues, in particular on melioration and soil consolidation. Characters that cannot yet be identified at the relevant time (§ 1) (e.g. plantations) will be completed according to the condition on 27 May 1950.
(2) The list of non-agricultural parcels and the list of fruit trees and shrubs and farm animals shall also be made for persons who do not have an agricultural establishment.
Any person who places on his account his own or hired means of operation on land or sets of land by agricultural, horticultural, forestry or a vineyard or pond economy shall be obliged to fill in the questionnaires as per the instructions, provide the Commissioner with all the necessary information, as well as to submit any subsequent amendments and explanatory notes. Persons required by the inventory pursuant to Paragraph 13 (2) shall fulfil their reporting obligations by providing the Commissioner with all the necessary information from them in the inventory required.
An inventory of industrial and business plants.
(1) The inventory of industrial and commercial establishments is subject to all national, national, municipal and cooperative establishments, as well as to other establishments (s) of the people's administrations' unions, as far as agricultural establishments are concerned, to other business establishments (s) subject to the provisions of the Trade Code (Trade Code), as well as to business of other business entities (hereinafter referred to as "business sites").
(2) In particular, the following groups of census characteristics shall be collected for the census of business events: ownership ratios, business subjects, plant organisation, workforce, machinery (including means of transport) and results of operation and financial management.
Each operator, after a representative of the business plant operator, shall be obliged to fill in the questionnaires correctly according to the instructions, to provide the Commissioner with all the necessary data and to submit all the necessary additions and explanations later.
Order and criminal provisions.
(1) All through which the national census is carried out, in particular the census and the review bodies, are subject to strict confidentiality regarding all private matters and the proportions of the census or establishments (s) and the content of the census documents against each person not authorised.
(2) The infringement of this obligation and any misuse of reports and data obtained in the national census is criminal.
(1) Consciously incorrect data, as well as any other intentional conduct and omissions which infringe or threaten the completeness or correctness of the census, punishes - if not more strictly criminal - the District National Committee pursuant to § 6, paragraph 1 of Act No 47 / 1927 Coll.
(2) This is especially the case if someone avoids the census, can be summed up several times, acts on others to make data inadequate to the truth, causes artificial movements of the population or the census from the municipality to the municipality or encourages such acts.
(1) To circumvent the census of houses, apartments and agricultural and commercial establishments, to be offered to fill in the census or to act on the census in any way to fill in the documents in the presence of a stranger shall be prohibited. It shall also be prohibited to deliver flyers, proclamation or use forms by the Ministry of the Interior which are not published.
(2) The transfers of such prohibitions, as well as others in this Regulation contained in the orders or prohibitions issued for the protection of the freedom and regularity of the census, shall be punishable by the District National Committee - unless they are punishable under § 6, § 1, § 47 / 1927 Coll. - § 6, § 2, § 47 / 1927 Coll.
Final provisions.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication; they shall be carried out by the Home Secretary in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Government Decree No. 224 / 1949 Coll., on the census in 1950 and the inventories associated with it (on the national census) |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 29.10.1949 |
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| Effective from | 29.10.1949 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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