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.
2012 No.
The Official Statistics (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012
Made
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
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 20071 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 Act2, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.
Citation and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Official Statistics (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Amendments to the Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008
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For article 2 (official statistics) of the Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 20083 substitute—
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1
Subject to paragraph (2), wholly Scottish devolved statistics4 produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule are specified as official statistics for the purposes of section 6(1)(b) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
2
In relation to Sustrans Limited5, only statistics produced, or to be produced, on behalf of the Scottish Ministers are so specified.
3
In the Schedule to the Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008, where alphabetically appropriate, insert the persons listed in the Schedule to this Order.
SCHEDULEPersons specified as producers of official statistics
(This note is not part of the Order)