The Statistics Act

This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.”

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: The Statistics Act
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Language: en
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communications community services financial services fiscal industry information and communication technology labour market public sector records registration research and innovation transport

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This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.” Section heading for Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector. This section is headed as covering industry, labour market, and social, education, labour, and industrial matters. This section is about banking, insurance, and finance generally. Section heading: Commercial and Professional undertakings.

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Short title
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AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.”

1. Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.
9
Appointment of Statistician General
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AI-assisted research summary: Section heading for Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector.

9. Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector.
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Functions of Statistician General
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AI-assisted research summary: This section is headed as covering industry, labour market, and social, education, labour, and industrial matters.

11. Industry (Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity and Water). Labour Market. Social, Education, Labour and Industrial matters including associations of employers, employees and other persons generally.
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Acting Statistician General
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AI-assisted research summary: This section is about banking, insurance, and finance generally.

12. Banking, Insurance and Finance generally.
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Other staff
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AI-assisted research summary: Section heading: Commercial and Professional undertakings.

13. Commercial and Professional undertakings.
16
Exemption from liability
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AI-assisted research summary: This section refers to transport and communication in all forms, including land, water, and air.

16. Transport and Communication in all forms such as land, water or air.
17
National Statistical System and its coordination
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AI-assisted research summary: Section title: Injuries, Accidents and Compensation.

17. Injuries, Accidents and Compensation.
19
Delegation of powers to collect official statistics
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AI-assisted research summary: Section 19 concerns sweepstakes, lotteries, charitable and other public collections of money.

19. Sweepstakes, Lotteries, Charitable and other public collections of money.
20
Producers of official statistics
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AI-assisted research summary: The text only shows a section heading about land tenure, occupation, and use of land, with no operational rule stated.

20. Land tenure, Occupation and use of land. 562 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE STATISTICS ACT [CAP. 351 R.E. 2023]
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Principles guiding collection and dissemination of statistical information
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AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Information, Communication and Technology.”

26. Information, Communication and Technology.
27
Right of Bureau to challenge Statistical information from other sources
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AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Community, Social welfare and Personal services.”

27. Community, Social welfare and Personal services.
35
Destruction of individual forms and returns
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AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Research and Innovation Development.”

35. Research and Innovation Development.
39
Estimates
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AI-assisted research summary: Section 39 is titled “Establishment”; the provided text contains only copyright notices and no operative rule.

39. Establishment. 563 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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