The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008, and comes into force on 1st December 2008.

(2) It extends to Scotland only.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;

“the Code of Practice” means the Code of Practice for Statistics published under section 10 of the Act;

“market-sensitive statistics” means official statistics which when disclosed would, in the opinion of the person responsible, be reasonably likely to have a significant effect on the value or traded volume of any investment;

“Northern Ireland Minister” includes a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly appointed as a junior Minister under section 19 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998(1);

“official statistics” has the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Act;

“person responsible” has the meaning given by section 67 of the Act;

“pre-release access” has the meaning given by section 11(8) of the Act;

“Scottish devolved statistics” has the meaning given by section 66 of the Act;

“the UK Statistics Authority” means the Statistics Board (Am Bòrd an Staitistig) established under section 1 of the Act; and

“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, a day which is a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning, or any other day when the offices of the person responsible are closed.

Pre-release access – wholly Scottish devolved official statistics

3.  The Schedule sets out rules and principles relating to the granting of pre-release access to official statistics which are wholly Scottish devolved statistics for the purposes of the Code of Practice.

JIM MATHER

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th November 2008