(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 6(1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (“the Act”) provides that statistics produced by the Statistics Board, a government department, the Scottish Administration, a Welsh Ministerial authority (the Welsh Ministers, the First Minister for Wales, or the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government), a Northern Ireland department, or any other person acting on behalf of the Crown are official statistics.
This Order is made under section 6(1)(b) and (2) of the Act, which allows orders to be made to specify other persons as producers of official statistics. This Order designates the statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule as official statistics. This Order applies to Welsh devolved statistics as defined in section 66 of the Act.