Legal Offences
Under the Statistics Act, 1993 it is an offence for a person or undertaking to:
- fail to provide information requested in a statutory inquiry (Section 36);
- prevent an Officer of Statistics (i.e. a CSO staff member or field officer) carrying out her/his duties (Section 37);
- obstruct the Director General or an Officer of Statistics in the exercise of her/his functions under the Act (Section 40);
- wilfully destroy, damage or falsify any document or record issued for the collection of statistics for a statutory inquiry (Section 42);
- provide information, written or oral, or deliver a document, knowing it to be false, in purported compliance with a requirement under the Act (Section 43).
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