Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007

Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to establish and make provision about the Statistics Board; to make provision about offices and office-holders under the Registration Service Act 1953; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2007 c 18
Introduced by	Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Commons) Lord Davies of Oldham (Lords)
Dates
Royal assent	26 July 2007
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c18) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA). It came into force in April 2008. Sir Michael Scholar was appointed as the first Chair of the UKSA.

The Act established the UK Statistics Authority as a non-ministerial department that employs the National Statistician. The National Statistician has an office to support them, the Office for National Statistics.