s 4 Preparation of reports and abstracts.
(1) The Statistics Board and the Registrar General for Scotland respectively shall, as soon as may be after the taking of a census, prepare reports on the census returns, and every such report shall be printed and laid before both Houses of Parliament. (2) The Statistics Board or Registrar General for Scotland may, if it or he so thinks fit, at the request and cost of any local authority or person, cause abstracts to be prepared containing any such statistical information, being information which is not contained in the reports made by it or him under this section and which in its or his opinion it is reasonable for that authority or person to require, as can be derived from the census returns.