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Appendix A.-Continued.
CENSUS REGULATIONS.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Census Ordinance, 1931, Ordinance No. 4 of 1931, on the 12th day of February, 1931.
1. "Order" means a Census Order made under the Census Ordinance, 1931.
"Prescribed person" means a person required by the Order to make a
return.
2. The Colony may be divided by the Superintendent of Census into districts which shall be known as Enumeration districts for the purposes of the census.
3. (1) The Superintendent of Census may appoint for any enumeration district a person (hereinafter called "the Enumerator'') who shall perform in that enumera- tion district the duties hereinafter set forth, and inay also appoint other persons hereinafter called Chief Enumerators who shall carry out such duties as the Super- intendent of Census shall direct.
(2) Every person appointed or required to act as Enumerator or Chief Enumera- tor under these regulations shall before he acts as such Enumerator or Chief Enumerator or performs the duties imposed by these regulations or otherwise sign an undertaking in the form set forth in the First Schedule to these Regulations faithfully to perform such duties.
4.—(1) The return to be made by the prescribed person shall be in the form set forth in the Census Order.
(2) Every return made by or on behalf of a prescribed person shall comply with the instructions shown on the form on which the return is made.
(3) The Superintendent of Census may cause any form to be translated into Chinese.
5. (1) The Superintendent of Census shall, not later than fourteen days before the Census Day, furnish every Enumerator appointed or required under these regulations to act for an enumeration district with a sufficient number of forms of return and such other forms as may be necessary for the purpose of the Census enumeration.
(2) The Enumerator shall, not earlier than eighteen days and not later than the day before the Census Day, deliver to each prescribed person in his district or to a person acting on behalf of such prescribed person the appropriate form of return, and shall, upon delivery of the form, enter thereon such particulars as the Superintendent of Census may require. It shall however be lawful for the Enumerator, in such cases as the Superintendent of Census shall deem fit, instead of delivering the form to the prescribed person, to retain the form and to fill in on behalf of the prescribed person, the particulars required.
(3) The Enumerator shall, if so requested by any prescribed person or by any person acting on behalf of such prescribed person, give such explanations as to the form of return or the procedure to be followed in making the return as are reason- ably necessary to enable the prescribed person to make a proper return.
6. Every person with respect to whom it is the duty of a prescribed person to make a return shall give to the prescribed person such information as he may reason- ably require for the purpose of enabling him to make the return :
Provided that no person shall use, publish, or communicate to any other person any information so given otherwise than in accordance with these regulations.
7.—(1) Where any person being of full age who is mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the first column of the First Schedule to the Order serves upon the Enumerator in person upon his attending at any premises to deliver the form of