Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007

67 General interpretation

In this Part—

• “enactment” includes—

  (a)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament;

  (b)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation;

• “Intelligence Service” means—

  (a)

  the Security Service,

  (b)

  the Secret Intelligence Service, or

  (c)

  GCHQ (within the meaning of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (c. 13));

• “Minister of the Crown” has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975 (c. 26);

• “Northern Ireland devolved statistics” has the meaning given by section 66(4);

• “Northern Ireland public authority” means a public authority whose functions—

  (a)

  are exercisable only or mainly in or as regards Northern Ireland, and

  (b)

  relate only or mainly to transferred matters;

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

• “person responsible”, in relation to any official statistics, means—

  (a)

  in the case of official statistics produced by the Board, the National Statistician,

  (b)

  in the case of official statistics produced by a government department, the Minister in charge of the department, and

  (c)

  in any other case, the person producing the statistics;

• “personal information” has the meaning given by section 39(2);

• “public authority” (except in section 40(1)) means—

  (a)

  a person or body exercising functions of a public nature in the United Kingdom,

  (b)

  a person or body entirely or substantially funded from public money,

  (c)

  an office-holder appointed by a person or body falling within paragraph (a), or

  (d)

  a body more than half of whose governing body or members are appointed by a person or body falling within paragraph (a);

• “reserved matters” has the same meaning as in the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46);

• “rights and liabilities” includes rights and liabilities relating to employment;

• “Scottish devolved statistics” has the meaning given by section 66(1) and (2);

• “Scottish public authority” (except in section 40(3)) has the same meaning as in the Scotland Act 1998;

• “transferred matters” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47);

• “Welsh devolved statistics” has the meaning given by section 66(3);

• “Welsh ministerial authority” has the meaning given by section 6(5).