REGULATIONS on the Local Statistics Agencies
Chapter 1
1. General provisions
1. The following agencies shall be considered
as the local statistics agencies of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia:
a) The Statistics Department of the Abkhaz SSE,
the statistics department of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara,
the Office of the Representative of the Central Statistics Department of
Georgia at the Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia.
b) The statistics departments of districts and
cities.
c) The statisticians of the regions.
2. The agencies listed in Article 1 of this
Regulation represent the local agencies of the Central Statistics Department of
the Georgian SSR and lead the statistic activity of the local importance.
3. The Statistics Department of the Abkhaz SSE,
the statistics department of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara,
the Office of the Representative of the Central Statistics Department of
Georgia at the Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia, statistics departments of the districts and cities
shall submit the plans and programmes of statistic
works to the Central Statistics Department of the Georgian SSR for
consideration and approval.
Chapter II
The structure of the local statistics agencies
of the Georgian SSR
1. The Statistics Departments of the Abkhaz
SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara and the Autonomous
oblast of South Ossetia
6. The Statistics Department of the Abkhaz SSR,
the statistics department of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara,
the Office of the Representative of the Central Statistics Department of
Georgia at the Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia shall carry out their activity on the basis of the
authority of the Joint Commissariat of Autonomous Republic.
7. The statistics departments are led by: the
Head of Department – in the Abkhaz SSR and Autonomous SSR of Adjara; Representative of the Central Statistics Department
of Georgia to the South Ossetian Autonomous
oblast. They shall be appointed under
the General Regulations of the Public Commissariats of the autonomous republics
and oblast of
8. The Statistics Departments of the Abkhaz SSR
and Autonomous SSR of Adjara, as well as the Office
of the Representative of the central Statistics Department of Georgia to South Ossetian Autonomous oblast shall consist of:
a) Head of Statistics Department and the
Representative (respectively)
b) Division of Social Statistics;
c) Division of Agriculture Statistics;
d) Division of Industry and Labour
Statistics;
e) Division of Trade Statistics;
f) General Division (Chancellery).
Chapter III.
The Competence of the local agencies of the
Central Statistics Department of the Georgian
SSR
a) The Statistics Departments of the Abkhaz
SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara and Autonomous Oblast
of
13. The competence of the Statistics Department
of the Abkhaz SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara and
Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia shall be as
follows:
a) to arrange and lead
the local statistics agencies;
b) to draw-up the
annual and prospective plans of the statistic activities and submit them to the
Central Statistics Department of the Georgian SSR.
c) to consider the plans of statistics activities
of the Public Commissariats and other organizations; to determine the volume of
statistic work and the rules of proceedings with further submission them to the
Central Statistics Department of the Georgian SSR;
d) to make conclusions on the statistics activity carried out
by the Public Commissariats and other central agencies outside of the approved
annual plans and their justification with the general statistic plans;
e) to elaborate the programmes and organizational plans for certain research and
study works;
f) to implement the
tasks entrusted by the Central Statistics Department of the Georgia SSR;
g) to carry out the
census at the local level;
h) to sum-up and analysis the statistic
material collected by the statistics department of the Abkhaz SSR, Statistics
Department of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and
the Office of the Representative of the Central Statistics Department of
Georgia to the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast as it
is considered at the relevant working plans;
i) to carry out the statistical tasks entrusted
by the governments of the Abkhaz SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara
and the Autonomous oblast of South Ossetia;
j) to carry out the
measures for gaining the knowledge and training of the staff working at the
statistic agencies;
k) to provide the
statistic information upon the request of the state agencies;
m) to organize the
statistic works and draw-up the methodology for statistic activities;
Chapter IV.
The rights and responsibilities of the local
statistic agencies of the Georgian SSR
a) Statistics Departments of the
Autonomous Republics and Oblast.
24. The Statistics Department of the Abkhaz
SSR, the statistics department of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, the Office of the Representative of the Central
Statistics Department of Georgia at the Central Executive Committee of the
Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia, for fulfillment
of the tasks, shall be authorized:
a) to request the
statistic information from any state, commercial, industrial or private
agencies that shall be ready at the fixed time;
b) to issue the
instructions, circular notes and guidelines according the laws currently in
force;
c) to supervise the accuracy of the statistics
activity carried out by the agencies, organizations and persons operating on
the territory of the autonomous republic and oblast, as well as the fulfillment
of decrees and resolutions relating to the statistics activity that are binding
to them.
d) to draw-up the
conclusions on the financial and personnel arrangements of the statistic works
submitted by the public Commissariats of the autonomous republic or oblast.
25. Every state, economic or public
organization and enterprise, as well as the private entities and persons shall
submit within a month two copies of published materials issues by them to the
Statistics Department of the Abkhaz SSR, the statistics department of the
Autonomous Republic of Adjara and to the Office of
the Representative of the Central Statistics Department of Georgia at the
Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia.
(Collection of Laws and Decrees Issued by the
Workers and peasants Government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, N
8, 1928, p. 174-184)