Collection of Statistics Act,1953
Act No : 32
Section :
Collection of statistics.
3. Collection of statistics. The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that statistics shall be collected relating to any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) any matter relating to any industry or class of industries; (b) any matter relating to any commercial or industrial concern or class of commercial or industrial concerns, and in particular, any matter relating to factories; (c) any of the following matters so far as they relate to welfare of labour and conditions of labour, namely:-- (i) price of commodities; (ii) attendance; (iii) living conditions including housing, water supply and sanitation; 159 (iv) indebtedness; (v) rents of dwelling houses; (vi) wages and other earnings; (vii) provident and other funds provided for labour; (viii) benefits and amenities provided for labour; (ix) hours of work; (x) employment and unemployment; (xi) industrial and labour disputes; (xii) labour turnover; (xiii) trade unions; 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 authorize a State Government to issue any direction under this Act with respect to the collection of statistics relating to any matter falling under any of the entries specified in List I 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 shall, except with the previous approval of the Central Government, issue any similar direction for so long as the collection of statistics by the Central Government remains to be completed; or (c) where a State 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 statistics by the State Government remains to be completed, except in cases where statistics have to be collected with reference to two or more States.
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