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The Official Statistics (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019

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Draft Order laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 65(6)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Official Statistics

Made 2019

Coming into force 21st December 2019

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(1)(b)(ii) and (2) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 6(3) of that Act, they have consulted the Statistics Board.

In accordance with section 65(6)(a) of that Actf2, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2007 c.18.

f2

Section 65(6)(a) has been modified by paragraph 5 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule Persons specified as producers of official statistics
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Official Statistics (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 and comes into force on 21 December 2019.

2Amendment of the Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008

(1)

The Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In the schedule, where alphabetically appropriate, insert the persons listed in the schedule of this Order.

Signature

Name

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date

Persons specified as producers of official statistics

Bòrd na Gàidhligf1

NHS Education for Scotlandf2

Public Health Scotlandf3

Scottish Fire and Rescue Servicef4

Scottish Qualifications Authorityf5

The Skills Development Scotland Co. Limitedf6

Visit Scotlandf7

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies that wholly Scottish devolved statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the schedule are official statistics. “Scottish devolved statistics” is defined in section 66 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”).

This Order amends the Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008 by adding seven additional persons to the list of persons specified as producers of official statistics.

Official statistics are statistics produced by the Statistics Board (known as the UK Statistics Authority), a government department, the Scottish Administration, a Welsh ministerial authority, a Northern Ireland department, or any other person acting on behalf of the Crown, under section 6(1)(a) of the 2007 Act or persons specified by order made under section 6(1)(b).

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business.