(1) For the purposes of this Act there is hereby established a Central Statistical Office management of which shall be discharged by the statistical office.
(2) The duties of the Central Statistical Office are—
(a) to take any census in this Island;
(b) to collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical information relating to the social, agricultural, mining, commercial, industrial and general activities and conditions of the inhabitants of this Island;
(c) to collaborate with departments of Government and with local authorities in the collection, compilation, analysis and publication of statistical records of administrations and departments; and
(d) generally to organise a co-ordinate scheme of social and economic statistics relating to this Island.