On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:59:34 +0100, Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On 22/10/2015 11:29, Trevor wrote: >> >> >> "Graeme Wall" <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:n0ad0d$jeg$1@dont-email.me... >>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34570120> >>> >>> Does this mean the 1921 Census might also become available soon? >>> >>> -- >>> Graeme Wall >>> This account not read, substitute trains for rail. >>> >> >> I very much doubt it will as they are staying with the 100 year rule. >> >> --- >> >> In addition, not everyone's details will be released. Those who >> featured in the 1939 register but who are younger than >> 100 today will have entries relating to them redacted. >> This applies unless it's proved that they have died, by >> researchers cross-referring with births, deaths and marriages data. >> > >I thought the 100 year ruling had been challenged? > Weren't people being specifically told by 1921 that their census details would be secret for 100 years ?

In message <qthh2bdrohkgkpstfh3tfhlpijj3j61s77@4ax.com>, Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> writes: [] >>I thought the 100 year ruling had been challenged? I believe it has, quite a few times; I don't think ever successfully, though. With the possibly exception of the 1901, which was released a few years early, but with the right-hand column "redacted" (i. e. blanked - I don't know why they couldn't just say blanked, but the media like the word redacted!). I have a vague memory that it was due to Tony Blair responding to pressure from genealogists, or at least that he took credit for or was blamed for the decision. >> >Weren't people being specifically told by 1921 that their census >details would be secret for 100 years ? I'm pretty sure it was/is enshrined in law - possibly even before then. (Reading the article:) The Census Act of 1920. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ... the closest thing the movies have ever got to a human special effect. - Barry Norman on Arnold Schwarzenegger (RT 2014/9/27-10/3)

On 22/10/2015 12:26, Charles Ellson via wrote: >> I thought the 100 year ruling had been challenged? >> > Weren't people being specifically told by 1921 that their census > details would be secret for 100 years ? > > The 1939 National Registration will be released next month. The 100 year rule was brought in by Statutory Instrument in 1966 and repealed in 2000. It is now nothing more than a non statutory office policy. The Census Act 1920 did not mention anything about the census being withheld or private for 100 years. The Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991 which amends the Census Act 1920 prevents any census taken under the Census Act 1920 from being released ever. A change of law would be required to make that legal, otherwise it could be released today. Cheers Guy