Register Harmonisation Act (RHA)
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Art. 14 Provision of data for statistical purposes by the cantons and communes
1 The cantons and communes shall provide the Federal Office with the data defined in Article 6 free of charge. The Federal Council determines the date and the periodicity of the delivery of data. 2 On request, the cantons and communes shall provide the Federal Office free of charge with the data under Article 7 in order to relieve the burden on survey interviewees, provided cantonal law does not expressly exclude its use for statistical purposes. The Federal Council determines the data required. 3 The data is supplied by means of electronic data carriers or in electronic form. In the latter case, the data must be encrypted in accordance with the Federal Act of 19 December 2003 on the Electronic Signature. 4 The Federal Office, in cooperation with the cantons, regulates the general technical conditions for the supply of data as well as the design of the interfaces. 5 In cooperation with the cantons, it defines the required inspections and quality standards.
Para. 3 — [AS 2004 5085, 2008 3437 No II 55. AS 2016 4651 Annex No I]. See today: the FA of 18 March 2016 (SR 943.03).
Art. 15 Provision of data for statistical purposes by federal agencies
1 The federal agencies under Article 2 paragraph 1 shall provide data to the Federal Office free of charge. 2 The Federal Council determines the data required.
Art. 16 Use of data by the Federal Office for statistical, research and planning purposes
1 The Federal Office may use the data for statistical surveys and analyses. 2 The Federal Office may draw random samples based on the data for statistical surveys. 3 It may use data listed in Article 6 letters a–h, j, k and m as a directory of addresses for the conduct of statistical surveys. 4 In order to fulfil its statistical tasks, it may permanently match and preserve the data with those of the RBD and of the Business and Enterprise Register (BER), subject to the removal of the names of persons.
Art. 17 Divulging of data by the Federal Office for statistical, research and planning purposes
1 In order to enable federal statistical and research centres and cantonal and communal statistical offices to carry out statistical analyses, the Federal Office shall pass on data without names of persons and without social insurance numbers, free of charge, or permit authorised online access to the data. 2 The Federal Office shall provide the cantonal and communal statistical offices with the data listed in Article 6 letters a–h, j, k and m on their own sovereign territory free of charge for the conduct of statistical surveys. 3 It may divulge the data without names of persons and without social insurance numbers to other public offices of the Confederation, the cantons and the communes as well as to private individuals for statistical, research and planning purposes. 4 The recipients under paragraph 3 must return the data received to the Federal Office on completion of their work or confirm in writing that the data has been destroyed. The passing on the data to third parties is only
Art. 18 Dissemination of the data for statistical, research and planning purposes
The results of assessments may only be disseminated in such a manner that the persons concerned may not be identified.