3. Service of notice. - (1). For the purpose of the collection of statistics under these rules, the statistics authority shall serve, upon the owner of any factory, industrial concern or plantation a notice requiring the owner to furnish the statistics authority with
(a) One or more returns in such manner and containing such particulars as may be specified in the notice:
(b) If the factory, industrial concern or plantation is owned by a company as defined by the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), a copy of the annual balance-sheet and profit and loss accounts and of the Director's report, if any, for the survey year, or if the company’s accounting year does not correspond to the survey year, then for the accounting year which corresponds as nearly as possible to the survey year for which the accounts have been closed:
Provided that it shall be lawful for the statistics authority to required the owner to furnish more than one copy of a return or other document or different returns or documents on different dates, or in respect of different of the activities of the factory, industrial concern or plantation.
(2) The return or other document referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be furnished before a date to, be specified in the notice which date shall be-
(a) In the case of an annual return or other document, not earlier than three calendar months,
(b) In any other case, not earlier than one calendar month, after the end of period to which the return or other document relates.
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