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Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2008

COLLECTION OF STATISTICS ACT, 2008 COLLECTION OF STATISTICS ACT, 2008 7 OF 2009 An Act to facilitate the collection of statistics on economic, demographic, social, scientific and environmental aspects, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows CHAPTER 1: PRELIMINARY: SECTION 1: Short title, extent and commencement: (1) This Act may be called the Collection of Statistics Act, 2008. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. SECTION 2: Definitions: In this Act, unless; the context otherwise requires,- (a) "agency" includes a person or persons engaged by the appropriate Government, directly or by outsourcing, for collection of statistics; (b) "appropriate Government" means- (i) any Ministry or Department in the Central Government; or (ii) any Ministry or Department in a State Government or Union territory Administration; or (iii) any local government that is to say, Panchayats or Municipalities,.....

The Chhattisgarh Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2008 Complete Act

State: Chattisgarh

Year: 2008

.....legal proceeding shall lie against the State Government or any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or the rules made thereunder. Section 14 - Power to amend Schedule The State Government may by notification, include in the Schedule, any other examination in respect of which it considers necessary to apply the provisions of this Act and upon the publication of such notification in the Gazette, the Schedule shall be deemed to be amended accordingly. Section 15 - Power to make Rules (1) The State Government may, by notification make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Every rule made under this Act, shall as soon as possible be laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly. Schedule - SCHEDULE SCHEDULE [See Section 2 (c)] 1. Examination conducted by Chhattisgarh Secondary Education Board under Chhattisgarh Secondary Education Act, 1965 High School/Higher Secondary/Professional Higher Secondary/D.Ed. (First and Second Year)/ Diploma in Physical Training/and examination conducted by other Board. 2. Any examination conducted by any University or any other Council or Company established by or.....

Collection of Statistics Act 2008 Chapter III

Title: Disclosure of Information in Certain Cases and Restrictions of their Use

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....consider necessary. Section 10 - Appropriate Government authorised to disclose certain information Notwithstanding the provisions contained in section 9 of this Act, the appropriate Government may disclose the following information, namely:-- (a) information supplied by informant in respect of which disclosure is consented to in writing by the informant or by any person authorised by the said informant; (b) information otherwise available to the public under any Act or as a public document; (c) information in the form of an index or list of the names and addresses of informants together with the classification, if any, allotted to them and the number of persons engaged. Section 11 - Disclosure of information schedules for bona fide research or statistical purposes (1) Notwithstanding the provisions contained in section 9 of this Act, the appropriate Government may disclose individual returns or formats or information schedules to other agency or person or institutions or universities solely for bona fide research or statistical purposes pursuant to their functions and duties. (2) No individual return or information schedule shall be disclosed pursuant to this.....

Collection of Statistics Act 2008 Section 11

Title: Disclosure of Information Schedules for Bona Fide Research or Statisticalpurposes

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....research or statistical project makes a declaration to use the schedules disclosed to them only for bona fide research or statistical purposes; and (c) the appropriate Government, making such disclosure is satisfied that the security of the schedules and any information contained therein shall not be impaired. (3) The published results of any research or statistical project shall not divulge any more information than what the agency authorised for collection of statistics could publish under this Act. (4) Every agency or person or institutions or universities to whom any individual return or information schedule is disclosed under this section shall comply with directions given by the agency authorised for collection of statistics making the disclosure relating to the schedules and any information contained therein.

Collection of Statistics Act 2008 Chapter IV

Title: Offences and Penalties

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....and no court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act. Section 25 - Sanction for prosecution No prosecution for an offence committed by any informant shall be instituted except by or with the sanction of the statistics officer, and no prosecution for an offence committed by persons other than informants shall be instituted except by or with the consent of the appropriate Government. Section 26 - Power of court to try cases summarily Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(2 of 1974), all offences under this Act shall be tried in a summary way by a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or by a Metropolitan Magistrate and the provisions of sections 262 to 265 (both inclusive) of the said Code shall, as far as may be, apply to such trial: Provided that when in the course of, a summary trial under this section it appears to the Magistrate that the nature of the case is such that it is, for any reason, undesirable to try the case summarily, the Magistrate shall after hearing the parties, record an order to that effect and thereafter recall.....

Collection of Statistics Act 2008 Section 20

Title: Penalty for Failure to Carry out Duties and Functions by Employees

State: Central

Year: 2008

If any person employed in the execution of any duty or functions under this Act -- (a) omits without lawful excuse to carry out his duty, or knowingly makes any false declaration, statement or return; or (b) pretends performance of his duties or obtains or seeks to obtain information which he is not authorised to obtain; or (c) fails to keep inviolate the secrecy of the information gathered or entered in the information schedules collected pursuant to this Act and, except as permitted under this Act, divulges the contents of any schedule filled in or any information furnished by any informant under this Act, shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with a fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or, in the case of a company, with a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both.