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Minister may prescribe certain matters and make regulations.
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16.—(1) The Minister may by order do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—
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(a) prescribe the subject-matter, nature, character and periodicity of the statistics to be collected under this Act, and the time at or the occasion on which the same are to be collected;
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(b) prescribe, subject to the provisions of this section, the persons or classes of persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given for the purpose of any statistics collected under this Act;
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(c) make regulations for the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally or any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act;
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(d) prescribe the schedules, forms, instructions and other documents to be used in the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally or of any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act;
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(e) prescribe any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.
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(2) When prescribing the persons or classes of persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given under this Act, the Minister may define or delimit such persons or classes of persons by reference to any matter or thing connected with or having direct reference to the statistics for the purpose of which the returns or information are or is required but not otherwise, save that, where owing to the prohibitive cost or for any other reason it is in the opinion of the Minister impracticable or unnecessary to obtain returns from all persons or every member of a class of persons, or from the whole of Saorstát Eireann or the whole of any particular part of Saorstát Eireann, the Minister may require the returns to be made or the information to be supplied by particular persons or particular classes of persons or in respect of a particular area or areas selected by the Minister as being sufficient for the purpose in view.
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