The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008
Chapter II Collection
of Statistics
3. Collection of
statistics.
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.