Section 23: Delegation of responsibilities to Ministries and other public agencies.

Without prejudice to the function of other agencies, the Bureau shall where appropriate delegate responsibilities to ministries and other public institutions with requisite capabilities to conduct nation-wide surveys, following standards and methodologies agreed with the Bureau in which case the publication of the data thus collected shall be with the prior approval and stamp of the Bureau and the said ministries shall be required to forward dataset and copies of the report on the collected data.