The Official Statistics Order (Northern Ireland) 2012
Section 6 (1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (“the Act”) provides that statistics produced by the Statistics Board, a government department, the Scottish Administration, a Welsh ministerial authority, a Northern Ireland department, or any other person acting on behalf of the Crown are official statistics. This order is made under section 6 (1)(b) and (2) of the Act, which allows orders to be made to specify other persons as producers of official statistics. This order designates the statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule as official statistics. This order applies to devolved Northern Ireland statistics as defined in section 66 of the Act.