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The Official Statistics (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019

S.S.I. 2019/416 · Made 3 December 2019 · Extends to Scotland

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Official Statistics

Made 3rd December 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 commencementI1

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 2008I1

(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

KATE FORBES

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd December 2019

Persons specified as producers of official statisticsI1

  • Bòrd na Gàidhligf1

  • F1...

  • Public Health Scotlandf2

  • Scottish Fire and Rescue Servicef3

  • Scottish Qualifications Authorityf4

  • The Skills Development Scotland Co. Limitedf5

  • Visit Scotlandf6

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.