S.I. No. 75/1938 - Statistics (Census of Population Publication) Order, 1938.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1938. No. 75.

STATISTICS (CENSUS OF POPULATION PUBLICATION) ORDER, 1938.

THE STATISTICS (CENSUS OF POPULATION PUBLICATION) ORDER, 1938, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 16 of THE STATISTICS ACT, 1926 .

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (1) of Section 16 of the Statistics Act, 1926 , that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by Order do all or any of the following things, that is to say :—

(a) Prescribe the subject matter, nature, character, and periodicity of the statistics to be collected under this Act, and the time at or the occasion on which the same are to be collected ;

(b) Prescribe, subject to the provisions of the Section, the persons or classes of persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given for the purpose of any statistics collected under this Act ;

(c) Make regulations for the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally, or any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act ;

(d) Prescribe the schedules, forms, instructions and other documents to be used in the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally, or of any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act ;

(e) Prescribe any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.

Now, therefore, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of section 16 of the Statistics Act, 1926 , and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, does hereby order :

1. The Statistics collected pursuant to the Statistics (Census of Population) Order, 1936, shall be compiled, abstracted, and published in such volumes or other form as may from time to time be directed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce.