STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949

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STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 1



1.(1) For the purpose of providing at intervals general surveys of the state
of trade and business, the Ministry of Commerce (in this Act referred to as
"the Ministry") shall in the year nineteen hundred and fifty and in every
subsequent year, take a census of production.

(2) For the purpose referred to in the preceding sub-section, the Ministry
may, in any year which may be prescribed by order of the Ministry (being a
calendar year beginning not less than twelve months after the date of the
order) take a census of wholesale distribution.

(3) For the purpose referred to in sub-section (1) of this section,
the Ministry may, in any year which may be prescribed by order of the Ministry
(being a calendar year beginning not less than twelve months after the date on
which the order takes effect) take a census of retail distribution and other
services.

(4) Any person carrying on an undertaking may, subject to the provisions of
section five of this Act, be required to furnish returns for the purposes of a
census under this Act; and the census may either be taken so as to cover all
undertakings in the field of production, distribution or other services, as
the case may be, or may be confined to such classes or descriptions of those
undertakings respectively as may be prescribed; and, without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing provisions of this sub-section, the Ministry may
by order provide for exempting from the obligation to furnish returns for the
purposes of a census under this Act, either wholly or to the prescribed
extent, and either unconditionally or subject to the prescribed conditions any
persons or any prescribed class or description of persons.

(5) The matters about which a person may be required to furnish returns for
the purposes of a census under this Act shall

(a)as respects a census of production, be the matters set out in Part I of the
Schedule to this Act;

(b)as respects a census of wholesale distribution, be the matters set out in
Part II of the Schedule to this Act; and

(c)as respects a census of retail distribution and other services, be the
matters set out in Part III of the Schedule to this Act.

(6) In taking a census under this Act the Ministry shall require returns to be
furnished with respect to the calendar year next preceding the date of the
census:

Provided that the Ministry may make arrangements for allowing a person for
whom it would be inconvenient to furnish returns with respect to that calendar
year, to furnish returns with respect to some other period of twelve months.

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STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 1