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| Section | Application to Wales |
|---|---|
| 3 | One member of the Board is to be appointed after consultation with Welsh Ministers. |
| 6 | Defines official statistics, which include those produced by a Welsh ministerial authority (defined as the Welsh Ministers, the First Minister for Wales and the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government). Allows Welsh Ministers to specify by order other statistics to be included as within the definition of official statistics. |
| 10 | The Board must consult the Welsh Ministers in preparing or revising the Code of Practice for Statistics. |
| 11 | Empowers Welsh Ministers to make an order providing for rules and principles relating to the granting of pre-release access to wholly Welsh devolved statistics. |
| 12 | At the request of the appropriate authority, the Board must assess and determine whether the Code of Practice for Statistics has been complied with in relation to any official statistics. The Welsh Ministers are the appropriate authority in relation to official statistics not produced by the Board which are Welsh devolved statistics. |
| 17 | The Board must consult the Welsh Ministers in preparing or revising a statement of principles and procedures in relation to assessment of National Statistics. |
| 20 | The Board may not without the consent of a Welsh ministerial authority produce and publish Welsh devolved statistics. |
| 24 | A Welsh ministerial authority may by order delegate to the Board any of the authority’s functions relating to the production of statistics. |
| 27 | The Board must produce a report annually on what it has done and found during the year and what it intends to do in the following financial year. The Board must lay an annual report before the National Assembly for Wales. The Board may lay other reports produced under this section before the National Assembly for Wales. |
| 29 | If there has been a serious failure by the Board to comply with its objective, or to perform any of its functions relating to Welsh devolved statistics, Welsh Ministers may, with the consent of the Minister for the Cabinet Office, give the Board such directions as they consider appropriate to remedy the failure. In addition, if the Board fails to comply, Welsh Ministers may, with the consent of the Minister of the Cabinet Office, exercise any function of the Board in order to give effect to the directions. |
| 42 | The Board may, for the purpose of assisting Welsh Ministers in the performance of their functions in relation to the health service, disclose to them any information relating to births and deaths etc. received by the Board from the Registrar General under section 42(1) and 42(2). |
| 44 | The Welsh Ministers may, subject to this section, disclose patient registration information to the Board. |
| 47 | Permits the Minister for the Cabinet Office to make regulations to authorise a public authority to disclose information to the Board where the disclosure would otherwise be prohibited by a rule of law or an Act passed before this legislation, or where the authority would not otherwise have power to make the disclosure. Where the regulations authorise disclosure by a public authority exercising functions only or mainly in or as regards Wales, the Treasury may only make the regulations with the consent of Welsh Ministers. Before making the regulations the Treasury and the Welsh Ministers must be satisfied both that the disclosure is required by the Board to enable it to carry out the function or functions in relation to which the disclosure is authorised and the disclosure authorised is in the public interest. |
| 65 | Orders made by Welsh Ministers under this Act are to be made by statutory instrument, and may not be made unless a draft of the instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales. Where a statutory instrument made by a Welsh Minister under section 24 includes consequential or incidental provision amending any relevant legislation it is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution by the National Assembly for Wales (section 65(8)). |
| Schedule 1(3) | Amends the Census Act 1920 such that the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Welsh Ministers must consult the Statistics Board before making regulations in relation to a census. |
Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007