New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 30 August 2011
| Public Act | 1975 No 1 |
| Date of assent | 24 April 1975 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.
This Act is administered in Statistics New Zealand.
3 Official statistics and co-ordination
4 Classes of official statistics
5 Necessity to inform Statistician of details of official statistics
6 Minister to approve all statistical surveys
10 Meetings of statisticians and users of statistics
11 Duty of all collectors and compilers of official statistics
Part 2
Department and Government Statistician
13 Office of Government Statistician
14 Duties of Government Statistician
15 Independence of Government Statistician
17 Deputy Government Statisticians
18 Appointment of other employees
19 Employment of persons for collection of statistics
20A Proof of signature of statistician and certain other persons
Part 3
Census of population and dwellings
22 Provisions to apply to census of population and dwellings
23 Census of population and dwellings
24 Particulars to be collected at census
25 Duty of persons to obtain census schedule
26 Duty of occupier and other persons abiding in dwelling
27 Particulars of persons not abiding in any dwelling
Part 4
Collection of statistics by the Department
28 Provisions to apply to collections made by Statistician
32 Furnishing of information required in schedules
33 Questions asked by Statistician to be answered
34 Completion of schedules by New Zealand agents of overseas traders carrying on business in New Zealand
37A Statistician authorised to disclose certain information
37B Disclosure of information collected jointly
37C Disclosure of individual schedules to other Government Departments for bona fide research or statistical purposes
37D Disclosure of historical documents
37DA Disclosure of individual schedules for statistical purposes
37E Security of recorded information
37F Power of Statistician to release information to New Zealand Meat Producers Board
39 Failure by enumerator, sub-enumerator, or agent to carry out duties [Repealed]
40 Omission to carry out duty, false declaration, unlawful information, and improper divulging of information
41 Obstruction of employees of Department
42 Impersonation of employees of the Department
43 Neglect or refusal to supply particulars
45 Mutilation or defacement of schedules
46A Evidence in proceedings for offences
Part 6
Miscellaneous provisions
48 Time within which information may be laid
An Act to consolidate and amend the Statistics Act 1955; and to make provision for official statistics; for a Department having the name Statistics New Zealand and the office of Government Statistician; and for the independence of the Statistician in the execution of his duties
The Long Title was amended, as from 15 December 1994, by section 2(1) Statistics Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 159) by substituting the words “a Department having the name Statistics New Zealand”
for the words “the Department of Statistics”
.
