The Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 39) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to the census of production, and provided statutory authority for the collection of trade and economic statistics in Great Britain.
Provisions Repealed enactments Section 19(4) of the act repealed 3 enactments, listed in that section. CitationShort titleExtent of repeal6 Edw. 7. c. 49Census of Production Act 1906The whole act.7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 2Census of Production Act 1917The whole act.2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 15Census of Production Act 1939The whole act.
Subsequent developments The act has been amended on several occasions since its enactment. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 14 (which required building byelaws to include provisions for estimates of the cost of proposed works) were repealed by the Public Health Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 64); subsection (3) was repealed by the London Government Act 1963; and subsection (4) was repealed by an earlier enactment. Section 18 (which applied the provisions of section 14 to Scotland by substituting references to Scottish building byelaw legislation) was repealed by the Building (Scotland) Act 1959. Section 16 (which authorised the exercise of the Board of Trade's powers by its officers) was repealed by the Industrial Expansion Act 1968.
Section 9A, requiring competent authorities to disclose information to the Environment Agency and equivalent bodies, was inserted by the Environment Act 1995. The Civil Partnership Act 2004 amended section 10(1) to extend references to marriage to civil partnerships. The Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24) will insert new sections 9B and 9C into the act, subject to commencement.
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