CENSUS AND STATISTICS (QUARTERLY SURVEY OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (QUARTERLY SURVEY OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (QUARTERLY SURVEY OF
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION) ORDER

(Cap. 316, section 11)

[30 January 1981.]

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

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

-industrial production' means any of the following

(a)the processing, assembling, altering, cleaning, repairing,
ornamenting, finishing or breaking up of any article or
materials;

(b) shipbuilding or ship repairing;

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

'industrial undertaking' means any undertaking engaged in industrial
production;

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

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

3. A statistical survey shall be carried out by the Commissioner in
respect of industrial undertakings in Hong Kong for the purpose of
compiling statistics relating to industrial production thereof in the
survey period. This survey shall be repeated 4 times in every year.

4. For the purpose of a survey, the particulars specified in the
Schedule shall be given in respect of industrial undertakings for the
sarvey period and shall, within one month after the survey period, be
furnished to the Commissioner in accordance with such form of
questionnaire as the Commissioner may issue for that purpose.

5. The particulars required to be given under paragraph 4 in
respect of 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;

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





6. For the purposes of this order, the survey period shall be any
such period of 3 consecutive months as the Commissioner may specify
from time to time in the schedule designed for the survey.

7. The use of sampling methods for the collection of particulars
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 24
months after the relevant survey period.

SCHEDULE [para. 4.]

PARTICULARS REQUIRED TO BE GIVEN IN RESPECT OF
INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS

Particulars of the industrial undertaking.

Number of persons engaged and its breakdown.

Number of working days. shifts and hours: man-hours of overtime worked.

Descriptions, quantities, prices and values of goods produced, or descriptions,
quantities, prices and values of sales and work done. with values of stocks at
the beginning and end of the survey period.
L.N. 23/81. Citation. Interpretation. Quarterly survey of industrial production. Particulars required to be given. Schedule. Persons required to give particulars. The survey period. Sampling methods may be used. Application of order in certain. Date for destruction of schedules.

L.N. 23/81. Citation. Interpretation. Quarterly survey of industrial production. Particulars required to be given. Schedule. Persons required to give particulars. The survey period. Sampling methods may be used. Application of order in certain. Date for destruction of schedules.

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