Jammu and Kashmir Collection of Statistics Act, 2010
No: 18 Dated: Oct, 25 2010
THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR COLLECTION OF STATISTICS ACT, 2010
Act No. XVIII of 2010
An Act to facilitate the collection of statistics on economic, demographic, social, educational, scientific and environmental aspects and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows : -
CHAPTER 1
Preliminary
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Collection of Statistics Act, 2010.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "Act" means the Jammu and Kashmir Collection of Statistics Act, 2010 ;
(b) "agency" includes a person or persons engaged by the appropriate Government, directly or by outsourcing, for collection of statistics ;
(c) "appropriate Government" means -
(i) any Department of the Government ; or
(ii) any Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Municipal Committee or Halqa Panchayat.
In relation to the collection of statistics under a direction issued by it under section 3 ;
(d) "Government" means the Government of Jammu and Kashmir ;
(e) "informant" means any person, who supplies or is required to supply statistical information and includes an owner or occupier or person incharge or his authorized representative in respect of persons or a firm registered under the Jammu and Kashmir State Partnership Act, Samvat 1996 or a Cooperative Societies Act, 1989 or the Jammu and Kashmir Self-Reliant Co-operatives Act, 1999 or a company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 or a societies registered under the Jammu and Kashmir Societies Registration Act, Samvat 1998 or any association recognized or registered under any law for the time being in force ;
(f) "information schedule" means any book, document, form, card, tape, disc or any storage media or any other electronic gadget on which information required is entered or recorded or is required to be entered or recorded for statistical purposes under this Act ;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under the Act ;
(h) "sampling" means a statistical procedure by which information relating to a particular field of inquiry is derived by applying statistical techniques to information obtained in respect of a proportion of the total number of persons or units concerned relevant to the field of inquiry ;
(i) "statistical survey" means a census or a survey, whereby information is collected from all the informants in the field of inquiry or from a sample thereof, by the Government under this Act, or any other relevant Act, wholly or primarily for the purposes of processing and summarizing by appropriate statistical procedures ;
(j) "statistics" means statistics derived by collecting, classifying and using statistics, specially in or for large quantities or numbers by the Government from statistical surveys, administrative and registration records and other forms and papers, the statistical analysis of which are, whether in a published or unpublished form ; and
(k) "statistics officer" means any officer appointed under section 4 for the purposes of any direction issued under section 3 of this Act.