Tanzania Act or statute

Parliament of Tanzania

The Statistics Act

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Structure: 13 provisions
Citation: The Statistics Act
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“This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.””

This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.” Section heading for Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector. This section is headed as covering industry, labour market, and social, education, labour, and industrial matters. This section is about banking, insurance, and finance generally. Section heading: Commercial and Professional undertakings.

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Short title

This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.”

Section 1

Acting Statistician General

This section is about banking, insurance, and finance generally.

Section 12

National Statistical System and its coordination

Section title: Injuries, Accidents and Compensation.

Section 17

Principles guiding collection and dissemination of statistical information

This section is titled “Information, Communication and Technology.”

Section 26

Estimates

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Provision 12Short title

§ 1Short titleShort title

This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.”

1. Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.

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§ 9Appointment of Statistician GeneralProvision

Section heading for Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector.

9. Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector.

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§ 11Functions of Statistician GeneralProvision

This section is headed as covering industry, labour market, and social, education, labour, and industrial matters.

11. Industry (Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity and Water). Labour Market. Social, Education, Labour and Industrial matters including associations of employers, employees and other persons generally.

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§ 12Acting Statistician GeneralProvision

This section is about banking, insurance, and finance generally.

12. Banking, Insurance and Finance generally.

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§ 13Other staffProvision

Section heading: Commercial and Professional undertakings.

13. Commercial and Professional undertakings.

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§ 16Exemption from liabilityProvision

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16. Transport and Communication in all forms such as land, water or air.

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§ 17National Statistical System and its coordinationProvision

Section title: Injuries, Accidents and Compensation.

17. Injuries, Accidents and Compensation.

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§ 19Delegation of powers to collect official statisticsProvision

Section 19 concerns sweepstakes, lotteries, charitable and other public collections of money.

19. Sweepstakes, Lotteries, Charitable and other public collections of money.

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§ 20Producers of official statisticsProvision

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20. Land tenure, Occupation and use of land. 562 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE STATISTICS ACT [CAP. 351 R.E. 2023]

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§ 26Principles guiding collection and dissemination of statistical informationProvision

This section is titled “Information, Communication and Technology.”

26. Information, Communication and Technology.

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§ 27Right of Bureau to challenge Statistical information from other sourcesProvision

This section is titled “Community, Social welfare and Personal services.”

27. Community, Social welfare and Personal services.

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§ 35Destruction of individual forms and returnsProvision

This section is titled “Research and Innovation Development.”

35. Research and Innovation Development.

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§ 39EstimatesProvision

Section 39 is titled “Establishment”; the provided text contains only copyright notices and no operative rule.

39. Establishment. 563 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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