[Section 3 heading substituted by section 4(a) of the Statistics Amendment Act 29 of 2024, Notice No. 5724 of GG51805, dated 20 December 2024 – effective 1 October 2025 per Commencement Proclamation Notice 6692, GG53452, dated 30 September 2025]
| (b) | decision-making or other actions; |
| (c) | monitoring or assessment of policies, decision making or other actions. |
| (2) | Official statistics must protect the confidentiality of the identity of, and the information provided by, respondents and be— |
| (a) | relevant, accurate, reliable and timeous; |
| (b) | objective and comprehensive; |
| (c) | compiled, reported and documented in a scientific and transparent manner; |
| (d) | disseminated impartially; |
| (f) | in accordance with appropriate national and international standards and classifications; and |
| (g) | sensitive to distribution by gender, disability, region and similar socio-economic features. |
| (3) | The purpose of the NSS is to serve as a coordination structure for the production and use of official and other statistics. |
[Section 3(3) inserted by section 4(b) of the Statistics Amendment Act 29 of 2024, Notice No. 5724 of GG51805, dated 20 December 2024 – effective 1 October 2025 per Commencement Proclamation Notice 6692, GG53452, dated 30 September 2025]
| (4) | Entities within the NSS other than organs of state, must enter into partnership agreements with the Statistician-General in terms of section 14(11)(b), for the purpose of increasing the body of official and other statistics. |
[Section 3(4) inserted by section 4(b) of the Statistics Amendment Act 29 of 2024, Notice No. 5724 of GG51805, dated 20 December 2024 – effective 1 October 2025 per Commencement Proclamation Notice 6692, GG53452, dated 30 September 2025]
| (5) | The NSS must conduct its work in accordance with the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and other relevant domestic, regional, continental and global frameworks governing the production and use of statistics. |
[Section 3(5) inserted by section 4(b) of the Statistics Amendment Act 29 of 2024, Notice No. 5724 of GG51805, dated 20 December 2024 – effective 1 October 2025 per Commencement Proclamation Notice 6692, GG53452, dated 30 September 2025]
