Part 1The Statistics Board
Organisation and administration
I132Executive office
1
The National Statistician must establish an executive office of the Board to assist him in his exercise of—
a
the function of the Board under section 9(1)(a) (development and maintenance of definitions, methodologies, classifications and standards for official statistics),
b
the function of the Board under section 20 (production of statistics),
c
the function of the Board under section 21 (retail prices index),
d
the function of the Board under section 22 (statistical services), and
e
any other function of the Board which he may exercise under section 31(2).
2
The executive office is, subject to this Act, to consist of—
a
the National Statistician (who is to be its head),
b
the other executive members of the Board, and
c
such other employees of the Board as the National Statistician may assign to it.
3
For the purposes of subsection (1) the National Statistician may delegate any function of the Board referred to in that subsection to any other member of the executive office.
4
The delegation of a function by the National Statistician under subsection (3) does not prevent him from exercising the function himself.