Duty of
secrecy. 10. & 11 Geo. 5, c. 41, s. 8.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1881.
any document makes, signs or delivers or causes to be made, signed or delivered a false document; or
(d) being a person required by this Ordinance or the regulations to answer any questions, re- fuses to answer or gives a false answer to that question;
he shall for each offence be liable upon summary con- viction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(2) Every person who:-
(a) being employed in the taking of a consus, without lawful authority publishes or com- municates to any other person otherwise than in the ordinary course of such employment, any information acquired by him in the course of such employment; or
(b) being in possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in con- travention of this Ordinance, publishes or communicates that information to any other person;
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall upon conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years and to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
7. The Census Ordinance, 1881, is repealed.
Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance which follows very closely the pro-- visions of the Census Act, 1920, (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 41.) is intended to replace the Census Ordinance, 1881. Paragraph 3 (1) (e) imposing duties as to re- turns on persons in charge of places where more than twenty persons are employed is derived from section 6 of the repealed Ordinance.
August, 1930.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.