Statistics Act, 1926
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Officers of statistics to have and produce written authority. |
11.—(1) Subject to the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, every officer of statistics whose duty or authority as such officer requires or authorises him to do all or any of the following things under or for the purpose of this Act, that is to say:— | |
(a) to demand of any person any information, or | ||
(b) to require any person to fill up, complete, return, or otherwise deal with or dispose of any schedule, form or other document in pursuance of this Act, or | ||
(c) to inspect, copy, take extracts from, or obtain copies of any record or other document, or | ||
(d) to collect or receive from any person any schedule, form or other document, | ||
shall be supplied with an appointment in accordance with this section appointing him to be an officer of statistics within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act. | ||
(2) Every such appointment of an officer of statistics shall be in writing in such form as shall be prescribed by regulations made under this Act and, in the case of an officer of the Minister or of a person who is not an officer in the civil service, shall be signed by the Minister or the secretary or assistant secretary of his Department or the principal officer of his Department concerned with the execution of this Act and, in the case of any officer in the civil service who is not an officer of the Minister shall be signed by any of the persons aforesaid or the principal or assistant principal officer of the branch of the civil service of which he is an officer. | ||
(3) Every officer of statistics when doing any of the things mentioned in the first sub-section of this section shall on demand produce and show his appointment under this section. | ||
(4) Any document produced by an officer of statistics in pursuance of this section and represented by him to be his appointment under this section and purporting on its face to be such appointment and to be duly signed in accordance with this section shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such appointment and to be valid and regular. | ||
(5) This section shall not apply to an officer of statistics engaged only in delivering or leaving schedules, forms or other documents under this Act with persons or at places. | ||
(6) This section shall not apply to a member of the Gárda Síochána in uniform, and any such member who, while wearing his uniform as such member, produces a certificate in writing signed by a superintendent of the Gárda Síochána that he is acting as an officer of statistics shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be duly authorised to act as such officer. | ||
(7) Every appointment and every certificate signed by a superintendent of the Gárda Síochána under this section shall contain a reference to the prohibition on the disclosure of information imposed by section 14 of this Act. |