REGULATIONS OF THE CENTRAL STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

I. General provisions

1. The Central Statistical Department of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia shall organize the statistic works on the territory of the Georgian SSR, direct, coordinate and control the statistic works provided for the  General Plan of the All-Union and the Trans-Caucasus SFSR, and execute the statistic operations in conformity to this Regulation.

2. The Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR shall enjoy all the right prescribed by the Constitution of the Georgian SSR and the Regulations of the People’s Commissariats to the latter.

3. In executing the directive of the Central Statistical Departments of the USSR and the Trans-Caucasus SFSR, the Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR shall be directly subordinate to the Central Executive Committee of Georgia and its Presidium and to the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.

4. The Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR shall carry out the All-Union, Trans-Caucasus and Republican statistics works under the general guidance of the Central Statistical Department of the Trans-Caucasus SFSR and in accordance to the Program elaborated by the latter.

5.  The Central Statistical Department shall exercise its function directly or through the District statistical divisions and the Central Statistical Departments of the Union Republic of Abkhaz SSR, the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Adjara and the Statistic Bureau of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia.

Note: participation of the Central Statistical Departments of the Union Republic of the Abkhaz SSR, the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Adjara and of the Statistical Bureau of the Autonomous oblast of South Ossetia in the works relating to the census, as well as in execution of special tasks shall be decided by the Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR.

II.  The matters under the jurisdiction of the

Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR.

1. The Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR shall:

b) carry out general guidance to the district statistical divisions and the central statistical departments of the autonomous republics, and to the statistical bureau of the autonomous oblast;

j) approve the programs and action plan of the statistic works of the district executive committees, union and autonomous republics and autonomous oblast.

i) summarize and deliberate the statistic materials collected by the statistical departments of the union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblast, People’s Commissariats and other state organs, as well as the enterprises and organizations subordinate to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia;

j) develop the effective methodology for statistics works and distribute them as an obligatory guidance to the statistics agencies and statistics departments of the Union and Autonomous Republics, the statistic bureau of the South Ossetian Autonomous oblast, institutions and enterprises of Republican significance; carry out the measures for rationalization of statistic works;

k) deliver the statistical data to the Central Executive Committee of All-Georgia, the State Planning Committee and other state organs of the Union and Autonomous Republics included in Georgia on the questions raised by the said bodies, and if collection of such data doesn’t require additional statistic works;

IV. The competence of the structural entities

of the Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR

12. The Central Statistical Department of the Georgian SSR, in line of the statistic planning commission, shall:

d) approve the programs and action plans of the statistics works of the executive committees of the Union and Autonomous Republics and autonomous oblast;

f) exercise monitoring over realization of statistics works of the People’s Commissariats, organizations and agencies, as well as over the implementation of approved plans on statistics works of the Union and Autonomous Republics and Autonomous oblast.

g) review the reports of the Central Statistical Departments of the Union and Autonomous Republics, as well as of the Statistics Bureau of the Autonomous Oblast on implementation of Federative and Republican plans, and provide the relevant information to the corresponding governmental organs or to the Central Statistical Department of the Trans-Caucasus SFSR.

Note 1.  The representatives of relevant organizations, enterprises and institutions, as well as of respective district executive committees, Union and Autonomous Republics and Autonomous Oblast shall be invited to the discussion of issues specified for under sub-sections b), c), d), and g).

31 October 1928

(Collection of laws and Decrees of the Workers and Peasants Government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, N 16, 1928, p. 319-324)