Agricultural Statistics Act, 1916
This provision gives the Act its short title: the Agricultural Statistics Act.
- Jurisdiction
- Zambia
- Instrument
- Act or statute
- Citation
- Act 11 of 1916
- Version
- 31 Dec 1996
- Language
- en
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This provision gives the Act its short title: the Agricultural Statistics Act. This section defines “statistics” as information that may be collected about matters specified in or prescribed under section 3. Statistics or estimates may be collected on specified rural and industry matters, and designated public officers must collect them and receive prescribed particulars. Prescribed persons must, when required by the prescribed officer, complete and supply the particulars in the prescribed form to the best of their knowledge. Every person must answer, to the best of their knowledge and belief, questions asked by a prescribed officer or an officer authorised in writing by one, when the questions are needed for collecting statistics.
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Short title ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
This provision gives the Act its short title: the Agricultural Statistics Act.
1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Statistics Act. - 2 Verify source ↗
Interpretation .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
This section defines “statistics” as information that may be collected about matters specified in or prescribed under section 3.
2. Interpretation In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— "statistics" means the information which may be collected of and incidental to matters specified in or prescribed under section three. - 3 Verify source ↗
Statistics that may be collected ................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Statistics or estimates may be collected on specified rural and industry matters, and designated public officers must collect them and receive prescribed particulars.
3. Statistics that may be collected (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and to the directions of the Minister, statistics or estimates shall be collected from time to time in relation to all or any of the following matters: (a) pastoral, agricultural, horticultural and dairying industries; (b) factories dealing with animal or vegetable products of the country; (c) land tenure and occupancy; (d) any other matter relating to rural industries prescribed by the Minister by statutory notice. (2) The duty of collecting any such statistics shall be performed by such public officer or officers as the Minister may, by statutory notice, designate thereto, and all prescribed particulars shall be furnished to such officers. [As amended by G.N. No. 319 of 1964] - 4 Verify source ↗
Obligation to make returns ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Prescribed persons must, when required by the prescribed officer, complete and supply the particulars in the prescribed form to the best of their knowledge.
4. Obligation to make returns (1) For the purpose of enabling the statistics to be collected, every prescribed person shall, to the best of his knowledge, when required by the prescribed officer so to do, fill up and supply, in accordance with the instructions contained in or accompanying the prescribed form, the particulars specified in that form. (2) Such particulars may relate to estimates of probable production, as well as to actual facts and figures. By Laws.Africa and contributors. Licensed under CC-BY. Share widely and freely. 1 Agricultural Statistics Act, 1916 (Chapter 229) Zambia Repealed - 5 Verify source ↗
Obligation to supply information ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Every person must answer, to the best of their knowledge and belief, questions asked by a prescribed officer or an officer authorised in writing by one, when the questions are needed for collecting statistics.
5. Obligation to supply information Every person shall to the best of his knowledge and belief answer when so required all questions asked of him by the prescribed officer, or by an officer authorised in writing by a prescribed officer, which are necessary to the obtaining of any information required for the collection of statistics. - 6 Verify source ↗
Power of entry .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
An officer may enter and inspect certain agricultural and industrial premises at reasonable times for Act-related inquiries; anyone who hinders the officer commits an offence and may be fined up to 300 penalty units.
6. Power of entry (1) For the purpose of making any inquiries or observations necessary for the carrying out of this Act, the prescribed officer, or any officer authorised by him in writing, may at all reasonable times enter upon any land on which any agricultural, horticultural, dairying or pastoral industry is carried on, and may enter any factory, workshop, dairy or other place where persons are employed or any such industrial undertaking is carried on, and may inspect any part of it, and all plant and machinery used in connection with it, and may make such inquiries as are prescribed or allowed by this Act. (2) Any person who hinders, obstructs or delays any officer mentioned in subsection (1) in the execution of any power conferred by this section shall be guilty of an offence, and liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred penalty units. [As amended by Act No. 13 of 1994] - 7 Verify source ↗
Publication of statistics ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
The Minister may direct how statistics compilations or abstracts are made and published, and individual returns may not be made public separately and alone without the maker’s consent.
7. Publication of statistics Compilations of statistics or abstracts thereof shall be made and published in such manner as the Minister may direct: Provided that no return of statistics furnished by any person shall separately and alone be made public without the consent of the person making the return. [As amended by G.N. No. 319 of 1964] - 8 Verify source ↗
Offences by officers and penalties ........................................................................................................................................................... 2
Officers commit an offence if they ask improper questions, take payments or rewards linked to their work under the Act from unauthorized people, or disclose covered forms, returns, or information except as allowed by the Act.
8. Offences by officers and penalties Any officer who— (a) puts an improper or offensive question to any person; (b) asks, receives or takes, in respect of or in connection with his employment under this Act, from any person other than an authorised officer of the Government, any payment or reward; (c) divulges, except as allowed by this Act, the contents of any form or return filled up in pursuance of this Act, or any information furnished in pursuance of this Act; shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand five hundred penalty units, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months in default of payment of any fine inflicted, or to the like imprisonment without the option of a fine, at the discretion of the court trying the offence. [As amended by Act No. 13 of 1994] - 9 Verify source ↗
Penalty for false statements ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2
It is an offence to knowingly make a false statement in a form, document, or answer given under authority of this Act.
9. Penalty for false statements Any person who makes, in any form or document filled up or supplied in pursuance of this Act or in answer to any question asked him under authority of this Act, any statement which is false in any material particular knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand five hundred penalty units, or in default of payment of any fine inflicted to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to the like period of imprisonment without the option of a fine, at the discretion of the court trying the offence. [As amended by Act No. 13 of 1994] By Laws.Africa and contributors. Licensed under CC-BY. Share widely and freely. 2 Agricultural Statistics Act, 1916 (Chapter 229) Zambia Repealed - 10 Verify source ↗
Forgery .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
A person commits an offence if they forge, or knowingly utter, a form or document used or prescribed under this Act.
10. Forgery Any person who forges any form or document which is used or prescribed under this Act, or utters such a document knowing it to be forged, shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable on conviction to the penalties prescribed by law for the crime of fraud. - 11 Verify source ↗
Regulations ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
The Minister may make regulations about statistics, and a person who defaults without reasonable cause can commit an offence and be fined.
11. Regulations (1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations— (a) prescribing the particulars and information to be furnished in relation to any matter in respect of which statistics may be collected under this Act; (b) prescribing the manner and form in which, the times and places at which, and the persons by whom and to whom such particulars and information shall be furnished. (2) Such regulations may provide that any person who, without reasonable cause, makes default in complying therewith shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand five hundred penalty units, or, in the case of a continuing default, to a fine not exceeding thirty penalty units for every day during which the default continues. [As amended by G.N. No. 319 of 1964, and by Act No. 13 of 1994] - 12 Verify source ↗
Authentication of forms ............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Documents given or issued by an officer under the Act are sufficiently authenticated if the officer’s name is printed or stamped on them.
12. Authentication of forms Every form, notice or other document given or issued by an officer under this Act shall be sufficiently authenticated if the name of the officer by whom it is given or issued has been printed or stamped thereon. - 13 Verify source ↗
Free postal service ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Certain statistical mail and telegrams are free of charges if marked and sent to or by a prescribed officer.
13. Free postal service All letters, parcels and packets, and all telegraphic messages relating to the statistics, shall, if marked with the words "Statistics. On Government Service", and when transmitted to or by a prescribed officer, be free of postal, telegraphic or other charges made by the General Post Office. - 14 Verify source ↗
Evidence ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Entries in returns, books, registers, or records made under this Act are not admissible in civil or criminal proceedings, except when the case is a charge of an offence against this Act.
14. Evidence No entry in any return, book, register or record made by an officer or by any person under this Act shall be admissible in any legal proceedings, civil or criminal, except upon a charge of an offence against this Act, anything to the contrary in the law of evidence notwithstanding. - 15 Verify source ↗
Consequences of default in payment of fines ................................................................................................................................... 3
If a convicted person does not pay a fine right away, the court may issue a warrant to recover the amount by seizing and selling movable property.
15. Consequences of default in payment of fines Whenever any fine has been imposed under this Act for an offence, and the person convicted thereof does not forthwith pay the fine, the court imposing the fine may in its discretion issue a warrant for the levy of the amount of the fine by seizure and sale of any movable property belonging to the offender, and the warrant shall authorise the seizure and sale of such movable property within the court's jurisdiction, and also outside its jurisdiction if the warrant be endorsed by the magistrate having jurisdiction where the property is situate. By Laws.Africa and contributors. Licensed under CC-BY. Share widely and freely. 3
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