COLLECTION OF STATISTICS (CENTRAL) RULES,
1959
1. Title
2. Definitions
4. Particulars to be furnished
5. Objections
6. Alteration of returns and extension of time
7. Interruption of ownership or working
9. Language in which information should be
furnished
10. Opportunity to show cause before sanction of
prosecution
COLLECTION OF
STATISTICS (CENTRAL) RULES, 19591
In exercise of the powers conferred by Sec. 14 of
the Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 (32 of' 1953), the Central Government
hereby makes the following rules, the same having been previously published as
required by subsection (1) of the said section, namely:
1. Cabinet
Secretariat Notification No. S.O. 3,
dated the 22nd December 1959, published in the Gazette of India dated the 2nd January
1960. Pt. II, Sec. 3 (ii) p. 2.
1. Title. -These rules may be called the Collection of Statistics (Central) Rules,
1959.
2. Definitions.
- In these rules, unless the i2oritcxt otherwise requires. -
(1) “Act”
means the Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 (32 of 1953):
(2) “Notice”
means the notice referred to in rule 3;
(3) “Plantation” means a commercial concern
referred to in sub-clause (ix) of Cl. (b) of Sec. 2 of the Act:
(4) “Statistics authority” means the officer
appointed by the Central Government to be the statistics authority under Sec. 4
of the Act; and
(5) “Survey
year” means-
(a) In relation to the collection of
statistics relating to a factory engaged in the sugar industry, the twelve
calendar months commencing from the 1st July of a year and ending
with the 30th June of the succeeding year:
1[(b)
In any other case the accounting year
of the factory ending on any date between 1st April of the year in respect of
which the statistics are being collected and the 31st March of the preceding
year.
1. Subs.
by S. O. 2667, dated the 1st August 1967.
1[(1). For the purpose of the collection of
statistics under these rules, the statistics authority shall serve, upon the
owner of any factory, industrial concern or plantation a notice requiring the
owner to furnish the statistics authority with 2[*
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(a) One
or more returns in such manner and containing such particulars as may be
specified in the notice:
(b) If
the factory, industrial concern or plantation is owned by a company as defined
by the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), a copy of the annual balance-sheet and
profit and loss accounts and of the Director's report, if any, for the survey
year, or if the company’s accounting year does not correspond to the survey
year, then for the accounting year which corresponds as nearly as possible to
the survey year for which the accounts have been closed:
Provided
that it shall be lawful for the statistics authority to required the owner to
furnish more than one copy of a return or other document or different returns
or documents on different dates, or in respect of different of the activities
of the factory, industrial concern or plantation.
3[(2)
The return or other document referred
to in sub-rule (1) shall be furnished before a date to, be specified in the
notice which date shall be-
(a) In the case of an annual return or other
document, not earlier than three calendar months,
(b)
In any other case, not earlier than
one calendar month, after the end of period to which the return or other
document relates.]
1. Renumbered
by S.O. 1309, dated the 26th April 1962.
2. Omitted
by ibid.
3. Ins. by
S.O. 1309 dated the 26th April 1962.
4. Particulars to be furnished. –The returns which the
owner may be required to furnish under the notice, shall contain all or any of
the following particulars as indicated in the notice, namely:
1. Identification particulars,
2. Nature of ownership and
management,
3 Value of any expenditure on
different components of fixed capital,
4. Value of and transactions on
different components of working capital,
5. Details of
employment including number of persons employed, man hours worked and payments
made for different categories of employees,
6. Value of privileges or
benefits accruing to different categories of employees,
7. Number and
power of different kinds of prime movers separately and for different types of
motive force,
8. Number and strength of
motors,
9. Installed capacity,
10. Details of
consumption of fuel, electricity and lubrication and their quantity and value,
11 other
materials and services consumed including raw materials, chemicals, packing
materials and stores and services purchased,
12. Value and
quantity of products meant for sale, including amount received for work done by
the factory for other concerns,
13 Sales to different types of
customers,
14 Stocks of fuels, materials and
products,
15 Inventory of equipment other
than power equipment,
16 percentage, condition and service
life of buildings, plant and machinery, and
17. Any other
particulars on which information may be supplied at the discretion of the
owner.
(1) If the returns and other documents required
from the owner cannot be furnished by him in the manner in which or the period
for which the notice requires him to furnish, by reason of their not being
capable of being compiled from his accounts or other records or for any other
reasonable cause, he shall supply them in such manner and for such period which
correspond as nearly as possible to the manner and period referred to in the
notice and shall apply to the statistics authority in writing within the period
allowed in the notice to treat such compliance as full compliance with the
notice.
(2) Where the statistics authority rejects an
application made under sub-rule (1), the time within which the owner is
required by the notice to submit the returns and other documents shall be
deemed to have been extended by a period equal to the interval between the date
of the application and the date of receipt by the owner, of the statistics
authorities order rejecting the application.
6. Alteration of returns and extension of
time: -On an application by the owner or otherwise, it shall be competent for
the statistics authority to issue orders adding to or otherwise varying the
heads under which the owner has been required to furnish the returns and other
documents in any mariner in which he has been asked to furnish in
the original notice and the owner shall thereupon be required to furnish such
revised returns and documents as if he had been required to furnish them in
original notice :
Provided that where the order has been made otherwise than on the
application of the owner, the time-limit for the submission of the revised
returns and other documents shall be deemed to have been extended to 1[three months or as the case may be, one month
from the date of receipt of such order by the owner:
Provided
further that the statistics authority may extend the time limit mentioned in
the notice, in his discretion, in any other case also.
1. Subs.
By S.O. 1309, dated the 26th April 1962.
7. Interruption of ownership or working: -
(1) If at any time during the period in respect of
which the returns or other documents are called for in the notice, the owner
ceases to be the owner, he shall furnish to the statistics authority, the
returns and documents in respect of that part of the period for which he was
the owner.
(2) If a
factory, an industrial concern or a plantation discontinues to function during
the period in respect of which returns and other documents relating to it have
been called for, the owner shall furnish to the statistics authority the
returns and other documents for the period up to the date on which the factory,
industrial concern or plantation discontinued to function.
8. Mode of service of notice. -Any notice or order required to be served on the
owner under these rules may be served by transmission through the post under
registered cover with acknowledgment due, or through a person authorized by the
statistics authority to serve such notice by delivering it at the place of
business of the owner and obtaining an acknowledgment for it.
9. Language in which information should be
furnished. -All information required to be furnished under these rules shall be
furnished in English or in such other language or languages as the Central
Government may order specify.
10. Opportunity
to show cause before sanction of prosecution. The statistics authority
shall, before sanctioning a prosecution under Sec., 11 give a reasonable
opportunity to the person to show cause why such prosecution may not be
sanctioned.