
2012 No. 2
Official Statistics
The Official Statistics Order (Northern Ireland) 2012
Made 5th January 2012
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on 21st February 2012
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1

The Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by 6 (1)(b) and (2) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.

In accordance with section 6 (3) of that Act the Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland has consulted the Statistics Board.
Citation and commencement
1 
This Order may be cited as the Official Statistics Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2012.
Interpretation
2 
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Official Statistics - wholly Northern Ireland devolved official statistics
3 
To the extent that they are not otherwise official statistics by virtue of section 6 (1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the wholly Northern Ireland devolved statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified as official statistics for the purposes of section 6 (1)(b) of that Act.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 5th January 2012
T.N. Caven
A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

SCHEDULE


 Agri-food and Biosciences Institute
 Arts Council of Northern Ireland
 Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland
 Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
 Education Authority
 Invest Northern Ireland
 Labour Relations Agency
 Livestock & Meat Commission for Northern Ireland
 Northern Ireland Cancer Registry at Queens University Belfast
 Northern Ireland Housing Executive
 Northern Ireland Library Authority
 Northern Ireland Policing Board
 Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
 Probation Board for Northern Ireland
 Regional Business Services Organisation
 Sport NI
 The Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Wellbeing
