CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTIC (ANNUAL SURVEY OF
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION) ORDER

(Cap. 316, section 11)

[13 January 1984]

1. This order may be cited as the Census and Statistics (Annual
Survey of Industrial Production) Order.

2. In this order, unless the context otherwise requires-

'industrial production' means any of the following

(a)the mining, quarrying, manufacturing, processing,
assernbling, altering, cleaning, repairing, ornamenting,
finishing or breaking up of any article or material;

(b) shipbuilding or ship repairing;

(c)the fabricating or repairing of any machinery or equipment;

(d)the generating, manufacturing or supplying of gas, electricity,
or water;

-industrial undertaking' means an undertaking engaged in industrial
production;

,,survey' means the statistical survey referred to in paragraph 3;

'survey period' means the survey period specified in or under
paragraph 6.

3. A statistical survey shall be carried out by the Commissioner
every year in respect of industrial undertakings in Hong Kong for the
purpose of compiling statistics relating to the industrial production
thereof in the survey period.

4. For the purpose of a survey carried out in any year, information
in respect of the matters specified in the Schedule shall be given in
relation to industrial undertakings for the survey period and shall, not
later than 31 July in that year, or such later date as the Commissioner
may specify in any particular case, be furnished to the Commissioner in
accordance with such form of questionnaire as the Commissioner may
issue for that purpose.

5. The information required to be given under paragraph 4 in
relation to an industrial undertaking shall be given

(a)in the case of an industrial undertaking which is a body
corporate, by a director, secretary or other person concerned
in the management thereof,

(b)in the case of an industrial undertaking which is a partnership,
by any partner thereof.,





(e)in any other case, by the proprietor of the industrial
undertaking.

6. For the purpose of this order, the survey period in relation to any
year in which a survey is carried out under paragraph 3 shall be the
calendar year immediately preceding that year or such other period of 12
consecutive months commencing in that calendar year and ending not
later than 31 March in the following year as the Commissioner may
specify in any particular case.

7. The use of sampling methods for the collection of information
relevant to any survey is hereby authorized.

8. This order shall apply in relation to an industrial undertaking
notwithstanding that it commenced business after the commencement
of a survey period or ceased to carry on business during that period.

9. All completed schedules collected or received by census officers
for a survey and all copies thereof shall be destroyed not later than 31
July in the third year following the year in which the survey is carried
out.

SCHEDULE [para. 4.]

MATTERS IN RESPECT OF WHICH INFORMATION IS TO BE GIVEN

(1) Type of ownership.
(2) Type of business activity.
(3) Percentage of shareholding by country of origin of investment.

(4)Name and address of undertaking, nature of work and number of persons
engaged. (In the case of undertakings submitting a combined return, this
information is required in relation to each undertaking.)

(5) Particulars of business premises.
(6) Number and sex of persons engaged, by type.

(7) Number of working days, shifts and hours worked.
(8) Compensation of employees, by type.

(9) Operating expenses, by type.
(10) Value, quantity and description of purchases, by type.

(11) Value of stocks by type, at the beginning and end of survey period; price
changes of stocks, by type.

(12) Value, quantity and description of goods or industrial services produced or
sold, by type.

(13) Other receipts, by type.

(14) Acquisitions, disposals, depredation and stocks of fixed assets, by
type.
L.N. 15/84. Citation. Interpretation. Annual survey of industrial production. Information required to be given. Schedule. Persons required to give information. The survey period. Sampling methods may be used. Application of order in certain cases. Date for destruction of schedules.

L.N. 15/84. Citation. Interpretation. Annual survey of industrial production. Information required to be given. Schedule. Persons required to give information. The survey period. Sampling methods may be used. Application of order in certain cases. Date for destruction of schedules.

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