Section No :  
1980 Revised version
CENSUS
Marginal Notes
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Census Ordinance.
2. Minister to direct taking of census.
3. Appointment of Superintendent of Census.
4. Appointment of Deputy and Assistant Superintendents of Census, and of officers and servants.
5. Rules by the Minister.
6. Government Agent, and Mayor or Chairman of Municipality, Urban Council, or Town Council to be Commissioners.
7. Appointment of Assistant Commissioner of Census.
8. Appointment of enumerators and supervisors.
9. Who are census officers.
10. Occupier to allow access and permit affixing of numbers.
11. Asking of questions by census officers.
12. Obligation to answer questions.
13. Schedules to be left at dwelling houses and tilled up by the householders,
14. Schedule to be delivered to and filled up by persons in command or in charge of institutions.
15. Enumeration of the armed forces and voyagers, travellers, &c.
16. Schedules to be delivered to superintendents of estates and filled up by them.
17. Duty of employers of labour to make returns.
18. Enumerator to deliver schedules and returns to the supervisor.
19. Commissioner to forward them to Superintendent.
20. Abstract to be made and forwarded to the Minister, and published,
21. Penalties.
22. No prosecution without Attorney-General's authority.
23. Record or entry made by census officer admissible in evidence only in a prosecution under this Ordinance.