CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF SERVICES) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF SERVICES) ORDER

CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF SERVICES) ORDER

(Cap. 316, section 11)

[13 January 1984.]

1. This order may be cited as the Census and Statistics
(Annual Survey of Imports and Exports of Services) Order.

2. In this order, unless the context otherwise requires

-advertising and market research business' means any of the
following businesses-
(a) market research;
(b) producer, distributor or agent of advertising films or
commercials;
(c) local branch office of an advertising or market research
firm from outside Hong Kong;

,,aircraft business' means any of the following businesses(a) local
airline company or aircraft charterer; (b) local branch office of an
airline company or aircraft charterer from outside Hong Kong, (c)
general agent, general sales agent or ground handling agent of an
airline company from outside Hong Kong; (d) aircraft caterer or
aircraft repairer;

'business undertaking' means an undertaking carrying on any of the
following businesses(a) advertising and market research business;
(b) aircraft business; (c) cargo forwarding business; (d) cinema,
television and radio business; (e) financial assets dealing and
broking business; (f) hotel business; (g) insurance business;

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(h) news transmission business;

(i) shipping business;

'cargo forwarding business' means the business of international air or
sea cargo removal, packaging, consolidation or forwarding agents;





'cinema, television and radio business' means any of the following

businesses

(a) film-studio, television-studio or radio-studio proprietor,

(b)producer, distributor or exhibitor of cinema or television films
or programmes;

(c)local handling agent or a producer or distributor of cinema or
television films or programmes from outside Hong Kong;

(d)local branch office of a producer or distributor of cinema or
television films or programmes from outside Hong Kong, or of a
radio broadcasting station from outside Hong Kong;

'financial assets dealing and broking business' means any of the

following businesses

(a)dealing and broking in stocks and shares, commodity futures
and gold bullion;

(b)local branch office of a dealer and broker in stocks and shares,
commodity futures and gold bullion from outside Hong Kong;

'hotel business' means the business of

(a) hotel proprietor, hotel management firm or consultant; or

(b)local branch office of a hotel management firm or consultant
from outside Hong Kong;

'insurance business' means any of the following businesses

(a) insurer;

(b) insurance agent, broker and other insurance services;

(c)local branch office of an insurance company from outside
Hong Kong,

dealing with either direct insurance business or reinsurance

business or both;

'news transmission business' means any of the following businesses

(a) news agency;

(b) newspaper or periodical proprietor;

(c)local branch office of a news agency or newspaper or
periodical proprietor from outside Hong Kong;

',shipping business' means any of the following businesses

(a) shipowner or ship operator;

(b) ship manager, agent or sub-agent;





(c)ship broker, ship chandler, ship or marine consultant, ship or
marine surveyor, ship piloting or other miscellaneous shipping
services;

(d)local branch office of a shipping company from outside Hong
Kong;

'survey' means the statistical survey as 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 business undertakings in Hong Kong for the
purpose of compiling statistics relating to imports and exports of
services 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 business 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 a business undertaking shall be given

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

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

(c)in any other case, by the proprietor of the business
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 the survey is hereby authorized.

8. This order shall apply in relation to a business 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 REQUIRED TO
BE GIVEN

A. Advertising and Market Research Business

Nature of business.

Revenue earned from services (advertising agency, production of
advertising films and other commercials, market research and public
relations) rendered to clients from outside Hong Kong.

Expenses incurred in Hong Kong on behalf of clients from outside Hong
Kong, including such expenses as advertising, market research and media
billings paid to local firms.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong on behalf of local clients, including
such expenses as advertising, market research and media billings paid to
firms from outside Hong Kong.

Other expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of
expense. B. Aircraft Business

(1)Local airline company or aircraft
charterer Nature of business.

Passenger revenue: transactions concluded within Hong Kong and outside
Hong Kong.

Cargo revenue on imports of goods into Hong Kong. on exports of goods
out of Hong Kong and on cargoes delivered between points outside Hong
Kong.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2)Local branch office of airline company or arcraft charterer from outside
Hong Kong

Nature of business.

Revenue of head office from services rendered in Hong Kong, by type of
revenue; freight revenue, passenger revenue, charter revenue. other
revenues.

Expenses of head office incurred in Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(3)General agent, general sales agent or ground handling agent of an airline
company from outside Hong Kong

Nature of business.

Revenue from acting as general agent, general sales agent or ground
handling agent of airline companies from outside Hong Kong.

Revenue collected in Hong Kong on behalf of airline companies from
outside Hong Kong. by type of revenue.

Expenses incurred in Hong Kong on behalf of airline companies from
outside Hong Kong. by type of expense.







Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(4) Aircraft caterer or aircraft repairer
Nature of business.





Revenue from provision of aircraft catering or aircraft repairing services
to airline companies or aircraft charterers from outside Hong Kong.

Expenses incurred in Hong Kong on behalf of airline companies or
aircraft charterers from outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of
expense. C. Cargo Forwarding Business

Nature of business.

Items and values of cargo forwarding
revenues. Direct costs incurred in operation.

Gross profit on operation.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of
expense. D. Cinema, Television and Radio. Business

(1)Cinema, television and radio business (other than local branch office of
a producer or distributor of cinema or television films or progammes from
outside Hong Kong. or of a radio broadcasting station from outside Hong
Kong.)

Nature of business.

Revenue from firms from outside Hong Kong for sales of copyright or
distribution of cinema, radio or television films or programmes.

Payment due to firms from outside Hong Kong in connexion with
purchases of copyright or distribution of cinema, radio or television films
or programmes produced outside Hong Kong.

Expenses on film or programme production incurred outside Hong Kong.

Commissions received from firms from outside Hong Kong for handling
of films or programmes.

Revenue from producers from outside Hong Kong for provision of studio
and shooting facilities and film-developing services.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2) Local branch office of a producer or distributor of cinema or television
films or
programmes from outside Hong Kong, or of a radio broadcasting station
from
outside Hong Kong.
Nature of business.
Revenue of head office from local distribution or sales of cinema, radio or
television films or programmes produced outside Hong Kong.

Other revenues of head office from services rendered in Hong Kong, by
type of revenue.

Expenses of head office in Hong Kong, by type of
expense. E. Financial Assets Dealing and Broking Business

(1)Dealer and broker in stocks and shares, commodity futures and gold
bullion Nature of business.

Commissions or service charges received from clients from outside Hong
Kong.

Commissions or service charges paid to companies from outside Hong






Kong.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2)Local branch office of a dealer and broker in stocks and shares,
commodity futures and gold bullion from outside Hong Kong

Nature of business.





Commissions or service charges received from local clients and paid to
head office outside Hong Kong.

Commissions or service charges paid to local companies.

Expenses of head office in Hong Kong, by type of
expense. F. Hotel Business

(1)Hotel proprietor, hotel management firm or
consultant Nature of business.

Name and address of hotel management firms engaged.

Net revenue from hotel management or agency services rendered to firms
from outside Hong Kong.

Expenses on hotel management or agency services rendered by firms and
consultants from outside Hong Kong.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2)Local branch office of a hotel management firm or consultant from
outside Hong Kong

Nature of business,

Revenue collected in Hong Kong on behalf of head office from hotel
management services rendered to local hotel owners.

Operating expenses of local branch office and other expenses incurred in
Hong Kong by head office.

G. Insurance Business
(1) Insurer
Nature of business.
Gross premiums received, discounts. commissions and brokerage.

Gross value of claims paid and recoveries (including salvage and
subrogation).

(In respect of the above items of information, marine cargo insurers shall
give particulars referring to all business derived from both within Hong
Kong and outside Hong Kong; life insurers shall give separate particulars
referring to business derived from within Hong Kong and outside Hong
Kong., other insurers shall give particulars referring to business derived
from outside Hong Kong only.)

Net addition to life funds of life insurers in respect of Hong Kong
operations.

Provident fund administration and investment fees received by life
insurers. Reinsurance ceded to companies from outside Hong Kong;
reinsurance premiums ceded, reinsurance commissions received,
reinsurance claims received and reinsurance profit commissions received.

Reinsurance assumed from companies from outside Hong Kong;
reinsurance premiums assumed, reinsurance commissions paid, reinsurance
claims paid and reinsurance profit commissions paid.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2)Insurance agent, broker or other insurance
services Nature of business.

In respect of insurance transactions handled on behalf of insurance






companies from outside Hong Kong:

(i) Gross value of premiums received, discounts, commissions and
brokerage; reinsurance premiums ceded to local insurers and
reinsurance commissions received from local insurers.

(ii) Gross value of claims paid, recoveries (including salvage and
subrogation) and local reinsurers' shares of claims.





Revenue due from outside Hong Kong for services rendered.
Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(3) Local branch office of an insurance company from outside Hong Kong
Nature of business.
In respect of policies written by head office in Hong Kong:

(i) Gross value of premiums received: discounts. commissions and
brokerage; reinsurance premiums ceded to local insurers and
reinsurance commissions received from local insurers.

(ii) Gross value of claims paid, recoveries (including salvage and
subrogation) and local reinsurers' shares of claims.

Net addition to life funds in respect of Hong Kong
operations. Provident fund administration and investment
fees received.

Expenses of head office in Hong Kong, by type of expense.
H. News Transmission Business

(1)News agency or newspaper or periodical
proprietor Nature of business.

Revenue from sales and subscription outside Hong Kong of local
newspapers and magazines.

Revenue from local sales and subscription of newspapers and magazines
published outside Hong Kong which the agency or proprietor represents.

Revenue from advertisers from outside Hong Kong for local
advertisements.

Revenue from firms from outside Hong Kong in respect of use of articles
or news transmitted outside Hong Kong. agency, representative services
and

other services.
Expenses in maintaining branch offices outside Hong Kong.

Expenses in employing agents, representatives, or correspondents.
including free-lance journalists, from outside Hong Kong.

Other expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2)Local branch office of a news agency or newspaper or periodical
proprietor from outside Hong Kong

Nature of business.

Revenue of head office from news transmission services rendered in Hong
Kong.

Revenue of head office from local sales and subscriptions of newspapers
or periodicals.

Other revenue of head office from services rendered in Hong
Kong. Expenses of head office in Hong Kong, by type of expense.

I. Shipping Business

(1) Shipowner or ship operator
Nature of business.

Cargo revenues on imports of goods into Hong Kong. on exports of goods






out of Hong Kong and on cargoes delivered between ports outside Hong
Kong.

Passage money collected in Hong Kong and outside Hong Kong.

Revenue from chartering ships to operators from outside Hong
Kong. Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(2) Ship manager, agent or sub-agent





Nature of business.

Names of ships attended to, their nationality and the number of calls of
each ship at Hong Kong.

Revenue from acting as agent, sub-agent or manager for shipowners or
ship operators from outside Hong Kong.

Revenue collected in Hong Kong on behalf of shipowners or ship
operators from outside Hong Kong in respect of passenger transportation,
chartering ships to local ship operators and other services.

Expenses incurred in Hong Kong on behalf of shipowners or ship
operators. by type of expense.

Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong, by type of expense.

(3)Ship broker, ship chandler, ship or marine consultant, ship or marine surveyor ship
piloting or other miscellaneous shipping services

Nature of business.
Revenue from services rendered to firms from outside Hong Kong.

Expenses incurred in Hong Kong on behalf of firms from outside Hong
Kong.
Expenses incurred outside Hong Kong. by type of expense.

(4)Local branch office of a shipping company from outside Hong Kong
Nature of business.

Revenue of head office from services rendered in Hong Kong by type of
revenue; freight revenue. passenger revenue, charter revenue and other
revenues.
Expenses of head office in Hong Kong. by type of expense.
L.N. 13/84. Citation. Interpretation. Survey of imports and exports of 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. 13/84. Citation. Interpretation. Survey of imports and exports of 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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