Inquests Act, 1959
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Statistics Act, 1999 (Act No. 6 of 1999)2. Purpose of Act |
The purpose of this Act is to advance the planning, production, analysis, documentation, storage, dissemination and use of official and other statistics by providing for—
| (a) | a Statistician-General as the Statistician-General of the Republic of South Africa and the head of Statistics South Africa and for a Council; |
[Section 2(a) substituted by section 3(a) of the Statistics Amendment Act 29 of 2024, Notice No. 5724 of GG51805, dated 20 December 2024 – effective 1 October 2025 per Commencement Proclamation Notice 6692, GG53452, dated 30 September 2025]
| (b) | the respective functions of the Statistician-General, the Council and the Minister and their interrelations; |
| (c) | co-ordination between Statistics South Africa and other entities within the NSS that produce official or other statistics; |
[Section 2(c) substituted by section 3(b) of the Statistics Amendment Act 29 of 2024, Notice No. 5724 of GG51805, dated 20 December 2024 – effective 1 October 2025 per Commencement Proclamation Notice 6692, GG53452, dated 30 September 2025]
| (d) | co-operation between the producers of official statistics and— |
| (i) | the users of such and other statistics in the government, other sectors of society and the public at large; |
| (ii) | the respondents supplying the information that results in official and other statistics; |
| (e) | liaison with international and regional organisations that— |
| (i) | request official statistics; |
| (ii) | make recommendations about the standardisation, classification, collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of statistics. |
