CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF
STORAGE COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE
AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER

(Cap. 316, section 11)

13 January 1984.1

1. This order may be cited as the Census and Statistics (Annual
Survey of Storage, Communication, Financing, Insurance and Business
Services) Order.

2. In this order, unless the context otherwise requires

'business services' includes accounting and auditing, advertising, data
processing, employment agency, equipment leasing, machinery
rental, legal, news agency and secretarial services;

'communication' includes postal, telephone, telegraph, radio and cable
communication, message delivery and message exchange services;

,,establishment' means an undertaking engaged in any of the following

(a) storage and warehousing;

(b) communication;

(e) financing;

(d) insurance;

(e) business services;

'financing' includes the business of all finance and investment
companies, loan, mortgage and discount companies, dealers or
brokers and exchanges in stocks and shares, commodity futures,
gold bullion and foreign exchange, pawnshops and money
changers, but does not include banks, deposit-taking companies
and representative offices of foreign banks;

'insurance' includes the business of insurers, reinsurers, agents and
brokers of all kinds of insurance and related insurance services;

',storage and warehousing' includes storage and warehousing facilities
for hire by the general public;

'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 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 establishments 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 an establishment shall be given

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

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

(e) in any other case, by the proprietor of the 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 method s for the collection of information
relevant to any survey is hereby authorized,

8. This order shall apply in relation to an 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.
(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.
(13) Premiums received and claims paid for direct insurance and inward reinsurance,
by type; particulars of insurance funds and reserves, by type; investment and
income from investment, by type; number of life policies in force, by type.
L.N. 12/84. Citation. Interpretation. Annual survey of storage, communication, financing, insurance and business services. 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. 12/84. Citation. Interpretation. Annual survey of storage, communication, financing, insurance and business services. 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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