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Related Section(s)1[(1) The statistics officer or any person or agencies authorised
under this Act shall, for statistical purposes, use any information furnished under section 6 in such
manner as may be prescribed.].
(2) No person other than a person engaged in the work of collection of statistics under this Act or preparation of statistics resultant to such collection shall be permitted to see any information schedule or any answer to a question asked, except for the purposes of a 2[penalty] under this Act. (3) No information contained in any information schedule and no answer to any question asked shall, except for the purposes of a 2[penalty] under this Act, be separately published, or disclosed without suppressing the identification of informants to any agency. (4) All statistical information published by any agency shall be arranged in such a manner so as to prevent any particulars becoming identifiable by any person (other than the informant by whom those particulars were supplied) as the particulars relating to the informant who supplied it, even through the process of elimination, unless--- (a) that informant has consented to their publication in that manner; or (b) their publication in that manner could not reasonably have been foreseen by the concerned agency or any employee thereof. (5) For the purposes of sub-section (4), the Central Government may make such rules or make such arrangement, as it may consider necessary.
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 2017, s. 5, for "sub-section (1)" (w.e.f. 3-10-2017).
2. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and Schedule for prosecution (w.e.f. 10-12-2024). (1) The Central Government may, 1[subject to the condition of previous publication] by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, the Central Government may make rules under this section for all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) principles for coordinating as effectively as possible to achieve the objectives of section 3 including nomination and registration of statistics officers by the Central Government and also to avoid unnecessary duplication in the collection of statistics; 1[(aa) the coordination and supervision of statistical activities by the nodal officer and the powers and duties of the nodal officer under sub-section (2) of section 3A;]; (b) the terms, conditions and safeguards under which any person or agency or company or organisation or association may be engaged by the appropriate Government for the purpose of collection of statistics under sub-section (3) of section 4; (c) principles for prescribing the form and manner in which the information may be required to be furnished; (d) principles for prescribing the manner in which the right of access to documents and the right of entry conferred by section 8 may be exercised; and 1[(da) the manner of use of information under sub-section (1) of section 9;] and 2[(db) the manner of holding inquiry and imposing penalty under sub-section (1) of section 15A; (dc) the form and manner of preferring appeal under sub-section (1) of section 15B;] (e) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act. (3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
1. Ins. by Act 21 of 2017, s. 6 (w.e.f. 3-10-2017).
2. Ins. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 10-12-2024). The informants who are asked to furnish any information under the
provisions of this Act shall be bound to furnish the information so asked in the prescribed manner to
the best of knowledge or belief; and in cases where only a portion of a particular class or group of
persons or units is asked to furnish information because of any sampling procedure, it shall not be a
defence in failure on the part of any informant to furnish that information, if so asked.
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 9 of this
Act, the appropriate Government may release such documents relating to information schedules,
which in its opinion have attained historical importance.
The statistics officer or any person or agency authorised
for collection of statistics shall, while copying or recording any statistical information collected
pursuant to this Act from individual returns, information schedules, worksheets or any other
confidential source by means of cards, tapes, discs, film or any other method, whether using encoded
or plain language symbols for processing, storage or reproduction of particulars, take and cause to
take such steps as are necessary to ensure that the security provisions of this Act are complied with.
The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, direct that the statistics on economic, demographic, social, scientific and environmental
aspects shall be collected through a statistical survey or otherwise, and thereupon the provisions of
this Act shall apply in relation to those statistics:
Provided that-- (a) nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to authorise a State Government or Union territory Administration or any local government to issue any direction with respect to the collection of statistics relating to any matter falling under any of the entries specified in List I (Union List) in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution; or (b) where the Central Government has issued any direction under this section for the collection of statistics relating to any matter, no State Government or Union territory Administration or any local government shall, except with the previous approval of the Central Government, issue any similar direction for so long as the collection of such statistics by the Central Government remain to be completed; or (c) where a State Government or Union territory Administration or any local government has issued a direction under this section for the collection of statistics relating to any matter, the Central Government shall not issue any similar direction for so long as the collection of such statistics by the State Government remain to be completed, except in cases where such statistics have to be collected with reference to two or more States or Union territories. Notwithstanding the
provisions contained in section 9 of this Act, the appropriate Government may disclose the following
information, namely:--
(a) information supplied by informant in respect of which disclosure is consented to in writing by the informant or by any person authorised by the said informant; (b) information otherwise available to the public under any Act or as a public document; (c) information in the form of an index or list of the names and addresses of informants together with the classification, if any, allotted to them and the number of persons engaged. (1) The appropriate
Government may appoint or cause to appoint an officer to be the statistics officer for any geographical
unit for the purpose of collecting any statistics directed by it.
(2) The appropriate Government may appoint any agency or persons working in such agencies to take, or aid in, or supervise the collection of the statistics within any specified geographical unit and such agencies or persons, when so appointed, shall be bound to serve accordingly. (3) The appropriate Government may employ on contract basis any agency or company or organisation or association or person, on such terms and conditions and on such safeguards as may be prescribed, for the purpose of collecting the statistics directed by it. (4) The appropriate Government may delegate to any statistics officer, as it thinks fit, the power of appointing agencies or persons working in such agencies or employing on contract basis any agency or company or organisation or association of persons, conferred on it by sub-sections (2) and (3) within the geographical unit for which such statistics officer is appointed. (5) The appropriate Government may, by order specify the form, the particulars required or the interval within which, and the statistics officer to whom, the statistical information by the informants shall be furnished. (6) The appropriate Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, delegate to any statistics officer, as it thinks fit, any power conferred under sub-section (5) for the purpose of the collection of statistics under a direction issued by it under section 3. (1)
Notwithstanding the provisions contained in section 9 of this Act, the appropriate Government may disclose individual returns or formats or information schedules to other agency or person or
institutions or universities solely for bona fide research or statistical purposes pursuant to their
functions and duties.--
(2) No individual return or information schedule shall be disclosed pursuant to this section unless-- (a) the name and address of the informant by whom the schedule or related information was supplied is deleted; (b) every agency or person or institutions or Universities involved in the research or statistical project makes a declaration to use the schedules disclosed to them only for bona fide research or statistical purposes; and (c) the appropriate Government, making such disclosure is satisfied that the security of the schedules and any information contained therein shall not be impaired. (3) The published results of any research or statistical project shall not divulge any more information than what the agency authorised for collection of statistics could publish under this Act. (4) Every agency or person or institutions or universities to whom any individual return or information schedule is disclosed under this section shall comply with directions given by the agency authorised for collection of statistics making the disclosure relating to the schedules and any information contained therein. Save as otherwise provided under this Act,--
(a) no information obtained pursuant to this Act and no copy of the information in the possession of any informant shall be disclosed or used as evidence in any proceedings whatsoever; and (b) no person who has access to any information because of his official position in the collection of any statistics shall be compelled in any proceedings whatsoever to give oral testimony regarding the information or to produce any schedule, document, or record with respect to any information obtained in the course of administering this Act, except in the manner provided under this Act. (1) This Act may be called the Collection of
Statistics Act, 2008.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India: 2*****]. (3) It shall come into force on such date3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 2017, s. 2 ( w.e.f. 3-10-2017)
2.The proviso omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, vide notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, Notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated (23-10-2020). 3. 11th June, 2010, vide notification No. S.O. 1416(E), dated 9th June, 2010, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). |
