Intellectual Property Rights
Centamap Census and Statistics Department Lands Department

2021 Population Census Statistics

Intellectual Property Rights Notice

1. The Population Census/By-census statistics, which refer to the statistics compiled on the basis of the results of the 2001 Population Census, the 2006 Population By-census, the 2011 Population Census, the 2016 Population By-census and the 2021 Population Census conducted by the Census and Statistics Department (“C&SD”) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the “Government”), as made available on the website and/or the mobile application of Centamap Company Limited (“Centamap”), are extracted from the Statistical Information (as defined at https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/page_31.html) published on the website of the C&SD at https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/ (“Specified Statistical Information”) and are subject to the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Government. The Specified Statistical Information is used, reproduced and disseminated on this website with the permission of the Government.

2. The Building Groups are developed jointly by (a) the C&SD and (b) Centamap, the Intellectual Property Rights in which are owned by and vested in the Government and Centamap jointly. The Housing Market Areas are developed by Centamap, the Intellectual Property Rights in which are owned by and vested in Centamap. The Large Subunit Groups/Large Street Block Groups are developed by the C&SD, the Intellectual Property Rights in which are owned by and vested in the Government. In this Intellectual Property Rights Notice, the boundaries of the Building Groups, the boundaries of the Housing Market Areas and the boundaries of the Large Subunit Groups/Large Street Block Groups shall collectively be referred to as “Specified Boundaries”.

3. Notwithstanding the terms and conditions of the Proprietary Right Notices of this website (at http://www1.centamap.com/gc/o/b5/info.htm), visitors of this website may download, print, adapt, distribute, reproduce and/or hyperlink to the Specified Statistical Information and/or the Specified Boundaries free of charge for commercial and/or non-commercial purposes, provided that they shall comply with the following conditions:

i. acknowledgement must be given, as the case may be, to: (a) the C&SD as the source of the Specified Statistical Information and the boundaries of the Large Subunit Groups/Large Street Block Groups, (b) the C&SD and Centamap as the sources of the boundaries of the Building Groups, and (c) Centamap as the source of the boundaries of the Housing Market Areas, in any copy or copies made by the visitors (“Visitors’ Copies”) and any subsequent copy or copies that may be made by the recipients of the Visitors’ Copies (“Subsequent Copies”), including but not limited to paper copies, digital copies and copies placed or posted on websites;
ii. in any and all Visitors’ Copies and Subsequent Copies, (a) the Government must be acknowledged as the Intellectual Property Rights owner of the Specified Statistical Information and the boundaries of the Large Subunit Groups/Large Street Block Groups, (b) the Government and Centamap must be acknowledged as the Intellectual Property Rights owners of the boundaries of the Building Groups, and (c) Centamap must be acknowledged as the Intellectual Property Rights owner of the boundaries of the Housing Market Areas; and
iii. any modifications made to the Specified Statistical Information and/or the Specified Boundaries in any materials or documents derived therefrom must be clearly indicated.

4. Use of the Specified Statistical Information and/or the Specified Boundaries in any way or for any purpose other than that provided in paragraph 3 above shall be subject to the prior written consent of the respective Intellectual Property Rights owner(s) concerned. Such requests for use shall be addressed to the C&SD via email at webmaster@censtatd.gov.hk and to Centamap via email at info@centamail.com.

5. For the sake of greater clarity, the permissions given in paragraph 3 of this Intellectual Property Rights Notice do not extend to the digital maps, the mapping information or any other contents on this website or this mobile application that are not the Specified Statistical Information or the Specified Boundaries. Authorization or permission to use (including doing any of the acts restricted by the copyright under sections 22 to 29 of the Copyright Ordinance (Chapter 528 of the Laws of Hong Kong)) such contents must be obtained from the owners of Intellectual Property Rights concerned.

6. In this Intellectual Property Rights Notice:

“Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean patents, copyright, design rights, trade marks, service marks, trade names, domain names, database rights, rights in know-how, new inventions, designs or processes and other intellectual property rights whether now known or created in future (of whatever nature and wherever arising) and in each case whether registered or unregistered and including applications for the grant of any such rights.

“Building Group”, “Housing Market Area” and “Large Subunit Group/Large Street Block Group” shall bear the same meanings respectively given to these expressions at http://hk.centamap.com/gcensus/img/Introduction21.htm.