CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADES, RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADES, RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADES, RESTAURANTS
HOTELS) ORDER
(Cap. 316, section 11)
[13 January 1984.]

1. This order may be cited as the Census and Statistics (Annual
Survey of Wholesale and Retail Trades, Restaurants and Hotels) Order.

2. In this order, unless the context otherwise requires

'hotel' includes any place where lodging is provided on a fee-paying
basis;

'restaurant' includes any place where prepared food or drinks are
sold for immediate consumption, and any catering service;

'retail trade' includes the business of hiring or renting goods;

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

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

'trading establishment' means any of the following

(a) any undertaking engaged in wholesale or retail trade;

(b) any restaurant;

(c) any hotel;

'wholesale trade' includes the business of importing or exporting
goods, and any commission agency or buying agency.

3. A statistical survey shall be carried out by the Commissioner
every year in respect of trading establishments in Hong Kong for the
purpose of compiling statistics relating to the business 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 trading establishments for the survey period

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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
respect of a trading establishment shall be given





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

(b)in the case of a trading establishment which is a partnership,
by any partner thereof,

(c)in any other case, by the proprietor of the trading
establishment.

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 a trading establishment
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. 4.1

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 establishment, nature of work and number of persons

engaged. (In the case of establishments submitting a combined return, this
information is required in relation to each establishment.)

(5) Particulars of business premises.

(6) Number and sex of persons engaged. by type.
(7) Compensation of employees, by type.

(8) Operating expenses, by type.
(9) Cost of purchases of goods for sale. by type.

(10) Stocks of materials, supplies and goods for sale at the beginning and end of the
survey period.

(11) Business receipts, value of sales of goods, and other income and receipts. by
type. (12) Acquisitions. disposals, depreciation and stock of fixed assets. by type.
L.N. 16/84. Citation. Interpretation. Annual survey of wholesale and retail trades, restaurants and hotels. Information required to be given. Schedule. Persons required t give information. The Survey period. Sampling methods may be used. Application of order in certain cases. Date for destruction of schedules.

L.N. 16/84. Citation. Interpretation. Annual survey of wholesale and retail trades, restaurants and hotels. Information required to be given. Schedule. Persons required t 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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