S.I. No. 73/2017 - Statistics (Quarterly Survey of Construction) Order 2017.

1. Information regarding the following, as it relates to the persons or undertaking concerned and specifying the quarter to which the information relates

(

a

) the nature of the business;

(

b

) the number of persons engaged in the undertaking in the period concerned;

(

c

) the value of new construction work done (including the substantial refurbishment of an existing building) in the period concerned;

(

d

) the value of repair and maintenance work done in the period concerned;

(

e

) the value of all new contracts and orders obtained for new construction (including the substantial refurbishment of an existing building) in the period concerned;

(

f

) the value of all new contracts and orders obtained for repair and maintenance in the period concerned;

(

g

) the type or nature (including existing, proposed or intended use) of the building or construction concerned.

2. Information on the time taken by the persons or undertaking concerned to complete the questionnaire, form or other record prepared by the Director General for the collection of the information referred to in paragraph 1.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 March 2017.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.

1 OJ No. L 162, 5.6.1998, p. 1

2 OJ No. L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1

3 OJ No. L 191, 22.7.2005, p. 1

4 OJ No. L 281, 12.10.2006, p. 15

5 OJ No. L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1

6 OJ No. L 319, 29.11.2008, p. 16

7 OJ No. L 103, 23.4.2009, p. 3

8 OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 14

9 OJ No. L 142, 1.6.2012, p. 26

3. This Order applies to all persons and undertakings (other than public authorities) that are classified for statistical purposes under Section F of NACE Rev 2 set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006

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.

4. A requirement on persons or undertakings to which this Order applies—

(

a

) subject to subparagraph (

b

), to provide, for the purposes of the survey, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule in relation to each quarter in the period from April 2014 to March 2019, and

(

b

) to provide the information referred to in subparagraph (

a

)—

(i) in the case of information relating to each quarter in the period from April 2014 to March 2017, not later than 11 weeks after a direction under section 26 of the Act of 1993 is given, pursuant to this requirement, to the person or undertaking to provide the information,

(ii) quarterly, and in relation to the immediately preceding quarter, in the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2019,

is prescribed for the purposes of section 25 of the Act of 1993.

SCHEDULE

Article 4

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

14

th March

, 2017.

I, ENDA KENNY, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 25

(1) of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993) and for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1165/98 of 19 May 1998

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, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 September 2003

2

, Regulation (EC) No. 1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005

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, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006

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, Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006

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, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1178/2008 of 28 November 2008

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, Commission Regulation (EC) No 329/2009 of 22 April 2009

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, Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009

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and Commission Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012

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, in so far as it relates to Annex B thereto, hereby order as follows