C.S.O. 1 in 4299/30.
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[No 31-24.12.30.-1.]
Short title.
Power to direct taking of Census.
10 & 11
Geo. 5, c. 41, s. 1,
Regula- tions.
10 & 11 Geo. 5,
c. 41, s. 3.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to make provision for taking from
time to time the Census of the Colony.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Census Ordinance, 1931.
2.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to order that a census shall be taken for the Colony or for any part thereof, and any order under this section may prescribe :-
(a) the date on which the census is to be taken; (b) the persons by whom and with respect to whom the returns for the purpose of the census are to be made; and
(c) the particulars to be stated in the returns.
(2) Any Order in Council made under this section may be revoked, amended or varied by a subsequent Order.
3.-(1) When any such Order has been made, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations :--
(a) providing for the division of the Colony into districts for the purpose of the census and the appointment of persons to act in these districts in connection with the census;
(b) requiring such persons as may be employed for the purpose of the census, to perform such duties in connection with the taking of the census as may be prescribed;
(c) requiring persons employed for the purpose of taking the census to make a statutory declaration with respect to the performance of their duties;
(d) requiring the chief officer of public or chari- table institutions or of any other institution prescribed by the regulations to make returns with respect to the inmates thereof;
(e) requiring the proprictor, master, keeper, manager or person in charge, of any place where not less than twenty people are em- ployed, or of any dock, factory, workshop, school, hospital, hotel or vessel lying within the waters of the Colony to make returns of the inmates therein;
(f) requiring information to be given to the per- sons liable to make returns by the persons with respect to whom the returns are to be made;
(g) with respect to the forms to be used in the
taking of the census;