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return a claim on the form provided for the purpose to be allowed to make a con- fidential return, the Enumerator shall deliver to such person a separate form of return and shall, upon delivering the form of return to the prescribed person who would but for such claim be required to make a return in respect of the person claiming, give notice of the claim to the prescribed person.
(2) Where such claim and notice have been duly served, the prescribed person to whom notice is given shall not be required to include in his return any particulars with respect to the person claiming other than the name of such person and the relation in which he stands to the prescribed person, and the person so claiming shall be deemed to be the prescribed person with respect to himself and shall, in making his return, state therein the name of the person who but for the claim would have been required to make the return.
8.-(1) The Enumerator shall, as nearly as may be in the course of the day following the Census Day, collect all forms of return delivered by him and shall examine each return and satisfy himself that the entries thereon are properly and sufficiently made, and shall make all such inquiries as are reasonably necessary for that purpose and shall himself make such corrections in the return as appear to him on inquiry to be required.
(2) Every person shall give the Enumerator all such information as may reasonably be required by him as aforesaid for the completion or correction of any
return.
9. The Enumerator shall on receiving each return, enter upon the return such particulars as may be required by the Superintendent of Census to be entered by the Enumerator on the form of return and shall forthwith-
(a) enter in all forms of return collected by him such further particulars as
may be required by the Superintendent of Census; and
(b) deliver to the Superintendent of Census the returns of all prescribed persons in his district duly completed and entered as aforesaid, and do such other acts and things relating to the census enumeration in his district as may be required by the instructions of the Superintendent of Census given under these regulations.
10. The Superintendent of Census shall cause to be examined the returns so delivered to him, and where it appears to him that any return is incomplete or that any entry on a return is insufficient or is inconsistent with any other entries, he shall require the Enumerator from whom it was received to take such steps as may be reasonably necessary, whether by inquiry from any prescribed otherwise, to complete or correct the return.
person or
11. The Superintendent of Census may himself give such directions to Enumera- tors as he may deem necessary for carrying out the duties imposed upon them by these regulations.
12. Where it appears to the Superintendent of Census that an Enumerator is for reasons of health or otherwise unfit to perform the duties imposed on him by these regulations the Superintendent of Census may appoint some fit and proper person in his place to perform the said duties.
13. The Superintendent of Census may, if he thinks fit, require an Enumerator to make a statutory declaration that such Enumerator has properly and sufficiently performed the duties imposed on him by these regulations.
14. No person having the custody, whether by himself or on behalf of any other person, of any forms of return, or other confidential documents relating to the census shall permit any other person without lawful authority to have, or fail to prevent any other person from having, access thereto.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
12th February, 1931.