Requesting and Sharing of Data Regulations, 2020

L.N. 368 of 2020

MALTA STATISTICS AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 422)

Requesting and Sharing of Data Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 41(2) and

42(2) of the Malta Statistics Authority Act, the Minister for Finance

and Financial Services, with the concurrence of and in consultation

with the Malta Statistics Authority, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Requesting and Sharing

of Data Regulations, 2020.

In furtherance of the provisions of article 36 of the Malta

Statistics Authority Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Act", the

Director General of the National Statistics Office may require any

person, undertaking or public authority to provide him with

information and registries the Director General deems necessary in

order to contact persons and undertakings for the purpose of obtaining

information for statistical purposes.

In furtherance of the provisions of article 41 of the Act,

the Director General of the National Statistics Office may, at his sole

discretion, for official statistical purposes only and when no other

possible alternatives are available, share non-financial data, as needed,

from the Business Register, with public entities, and he may impose

such conditions as he may deem necessary for the sharing of the

information referred to in this regulation

Provided that, the Director General may at his sole

discretion may allow the public entities to further share the

information referred to in this regulation to approved parties subject to

conditions he may deem necessary.

So however that the penalties specified in article 44 of the Act

shall apply also in the case of any breach of any of the conditions

referred to in these regulations.

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