ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Statistics Act
23. Director-General may give information
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
23. Director-General may give information
(1)The Director-General may at the request of any person or agency and upon payment of such fee, if any, as may be prescribed by the Board, provide to that person or agency, any special information or report concerning, or carry out for that person or agency any special investigation into, any of the matters specified in the First Schedule:Provided that the person requesting for information shall undertake in writing, to the satisfaction of the Director-General—(a)to use the information so obtained only for research purposes; and(b)not to release such information to any other person except with the prior written consent of the Director-General.(2)The Director-General may, with the approval of the Board, cause statistical data collected by the Bureau to be disseminated to the public after ascertaining its accuracy and safeguarding the confidentiality with respect to the information.(3)The Director-General may, with the approval of the Board, cause any official statistical data collected, analysed and disseminated by the Bureau to be cancelled, revised or adjusted where such data is found not to be accurate:Provided that where such data relates to the size of the population, the Board shall inform the Cabinet Secretary accordingly and the Cabinet Secretary shall seek the approval of the full Cabinet to make the desired cancellation, revision or adjustment.(4)The Cabinet Secretary shall, within fourteen days of receiving approval under subsection (3), publish the official data which is cancelled, revised or adjusted, in the Gazette.