CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - CHAPTER 316I CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - LONG TITLE Empowering section VerDate:30/06/1997 (Cap 316 section 11) [13 January 1984] (L.N. 12 of 1984) CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 1 Citation VerDate:30/06/1997 This order may be cited as the Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Storage, Communication, Financing, Insurance and Business Services) Order. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 2 Interpretation VerDate:01/07/1997 Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 23 of 1998 s. 2 In this order, unless the context otherwise requires- "business services" (商用服務) includes accounting and auditing, advertising, data processing, employment agency, equipment leasing, machinery rental, legal, news agency and secretarial services; "communication" (通訊) includes postal, telephone, telegraph, radio and cable communication, message delivery and message exchange services; "establishment" (機構) means an undertaking engaged in any of the following- (a) storage and warehousing; (b) communication; (c) financing; (d) insurance; (e) business services; "financing" (財務) includes the business of all finance and investment companies, loan, mortgage and discount companies, dealers or brokers and exchanges in stocks and shares, commodity futures, gold bullion and foreign currency, pawnshops and money changers, but does not include banks, deposit-taking companies and representative offices of foreign banks within the meaning of the Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Banks, Deposit-taking Companies, Restricted Licence Banks and Representative Offices of Foreign Banks) Order (Cap 316 sub. leg.); (23 of 1998 s. 2) "insurance" (保險) includes the business of insurers, reinsurers, agents and brokers of all kinds of insurance and related insurance services; "storage and warehousing" (倉庫及貨倉) includes storage and warehousing facilities for hire by the general public; "survey" (調查) means the statistical survey referred to in paragraph 3; "survey period" (調查期) means the survey period specified in or under paragraph 6. "business services" (商用服務) "communication" (通訊) "establishment" (機構) "financing" (財務) "insurance" (保險) "storage and warehousing" (倉庫及貨倉) "survey" (調查) "survey period" (調查期) CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 3 Annual survey of storage, communication, financing, insurance and business services VerDate:30/06/1997 A statistical survey shall be carried out by the Commissioner every year in respect of establishments in Hong Kong for the purpose of compiling statistics relating to the business thereof in the survey period. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 4 Information required to be given VerDate:30/06/1997 For the purpose of a survey carried out in any year, information in respect of the matters specified in the Schedule shall be given in relation to establishments for the survey period and shall, not later than 31 July in that year, or such later date as the Commissioner may specify in any particular case, be furnished to the Commissioner in accordance with such form of questionnaire as the Commissioner may issue for that purpose. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 5 Persons required to give information VerDate:30/06/1997 The information required to be given under paragraph 4 in respect of an establishment shall be given- (a) in the case of an establishment which is a body corporate, by a director, secretary or other person concerned in the management thereof; (b) in the case of an establishment which is a partnership, by any partner thereof; (c) in any other case, by the proprietor of the establishment. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 6 The survey period VerDate:30/06/1997 For the purpose of this order, the survey period in relation to any year in which a survey is carried out under paragraph 3 shall be the calendar year immediately preceding that year or such other period of 12 consecutive months commencing in that calendar year and ending not later than 31 March in the following year as the Commissioner may specify in any particular case. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 7 Sampling methods may be used VerDate:30/06/1997 The use of sampling methods for the collection of information relevant to the survey is hereby authorized. (L.N. 80 of 1995) CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 8 Application of order in certain cases VerDate:30/06/1997 This order shall apply in relation to an establishment notwithstanding that it commenced business after the commencement of a survey period or ceased to carry on business during that period. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 9 Date for destruction of schedules VerDate:30/06/1997 All completed schedules collected or received by census officers for a survey and all copies thereof shall be destroyed not later than 31 July in the third year following the year in which the survey is carried out. CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ANNUAL SURVEY OF STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES) ORDER - SCHEDULE SCHEDULE VerDate:30/06/1997 [paragraph 4] MATTERS IN RESPECT OF WHICH INFORMATION IS TO BE GIVEN (1) Type of ownership. (2) Type of business activity. (In the case of undertakings submitting a combined return, this information is required in relation to each undertaking.) (L.N. 80 of 1995) (3) Percentage of shareholding by country of origin of investment. (4) Name and address of undertaking. (In the case of undertakings submitting a combined return, this information is required in relation to each undertaking.) (L.N. 80 of 1995) (5) Particulars of business premises. (In the case of undertakings submitting a combined return, this information is required in relation to each undertaking.) (L.N. 80 of 1995) (6) Number and sex of persons engaged, by type. (In the case of undertakings submitting a combined return, this information is required in relation to each undertaking.) (L.N. 80 of 1995) (7) Compensation of employees, by type. (8) Operating expenses, by type. (9) Cost of purchases of goods for sale. (10) Stocks of materials, supplies and goods for sale, at the beginning and end of the survey period. (11) Business receipts, value of sales of goods, and other income and receipts, by type. (12) Acquisitions, disposals, depreciation and stock of fixed assets, by type. (13) Premiums received and claims paid for direct insurance and inward reinsurance, by type; particulars of insurance funds and reserves, by type; investment and income from investment, by type; number of life policies in force, by type. (14) Number of working days, shifts and hours worked, by type. (L.N. 80 of 1995) (15) Characteristics of transactions with parties outside Hong Kong, and receipts and payments arising therefrom, by type. (L.N. 80 of 1995)