CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE SECTORS) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE SECTORS) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE
SECTORS) ORDER

(Cap. 316, section 11)

[13 January 1984.]

1. This order may be cited as the Census and Statistics (Annual
Survey of Building, Construction and Real Estate Sectors) Order.

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

'building, construction and real estate sectors' means any of the
following--

(a)the erection, maintenance or repair of buildings or other
immobile structures;

(b)the physical development of land for purposes other than
agriculture;

(e)site formation, piling, caissons or other sub-structure work;

(d)the installation of service facilities in buildings or other
immobile structures, whether under construction or already in
use;

(e)the demolition of existing buildings or other immobile
structures;

the development of or transaction in real estate (including
leasing);

(g)architectural or related surveying, testing, designing or
engineering work;

(h) real estate brokerage or agency;

(i) real estate management services;

(j)any specific process constituting part of the activities
specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) inclusive;

'building, construction and real estate undertaking means any
undertaking engaged in building, construction and real estate
sectors;

'real estate' means immovable property;

'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 building, construction and real estate
undertakings in Hong Kong for the purpose of compiling statistics
relating to the building, construction and real estate sectors 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 building, construction and real estate 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
respect of any building, construction and real estate undertaking shall
be given

(a)in the case of a building, construction and real estate
undertaking which is a body corporate, by a director, secretary
or other person concerned in the management thereof;

(b)in the case of a building, construction and real estate
undertaking which is a partnership, by any partner thereof;

(c)in any other case, by the proprietor of the building,
construction and real estate 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 authorized.

8. This order shall apply in relation to a building, construction and
real estate 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. 4.1

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 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) Value of purchases and stocks of materials and supplies, by type.

(10) Value of contract work and other operating expenses, by type.

(11) Value of construction work performed and other business receipts, by type.

(12) Value of property completed or under construction and the associated price of
land.

(13) Particulars of individual building, construction or real estate development
projects; project outlays; construction value; project value and land value.

(14) Transactions in land and property.

(15) Acquisitions, disposals, depreciation and stocks of fixed assets, by type.
L.N. 14/84. Citation. Interpretation. Survey of building, construction and real estate sectors. 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. 14/84. Citation. Interpretation. Survey of building, construction and real estate sectors. 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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