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CAP. 316]
Census and Statistics
[1978 Ed.
Completion and return of schedules.
accordance with such direction, to any specified person one or more schedules for completion by such person.
(2) For the purpose of taking a census of population, the Commissioner may direct any census officer to deliver or cause to be delivered to the person in charge of any of the following premises-
(a) any public or private institution of any kind whatsoever in which inmates reside, whether for payment or otherwise, including any penal, corrective or remand establishment;
or
(b) any hotel, boarding house, lodging-house, club or other
residential establishment,
a schedule to be completed by that person in respect of the persons who, at the time of taking the census, are in or upon such premises.
(3) Delivery under subsection (1) of a schedule to a specified person may be effected-
(a) personally by a census officer;
(b) by being sent by post to the last known postal address of
such specified person;
(c) by being left by a census officer at his last known residential address or at any undertaking of such specified person, or in the case of a corporation, at its registered office or principal place of business.
(4) For the purpose of providing information for specified persons generally in relation to a statistical inquiry, including the instructions and procedures laid down under section 4 for the completion of schedules, the Commissioner may give such publicity to the inquiry by means of advertisements or otherwise as he may deem fit.
13. (1) Any person (not being a person to whom subsection (2) applies) to whom a schedule relating to a statistical inquiry is delivered under section 12 shall complete it or cause it to be completed to the best of his knowledge and belief by providing the information specified, in the manner and within the time indicated, in such schedule and shall thereafter return it in the manner and within the time specified therein.
(2) If any person to whom a schedule is delivered under section 12 is unable either himself to complete it in the manner or within the time indicated therein, or to cause some other person so to complete it, he shall return the schedule in the manner and within the time specified therein and shall declare, either verbally or in writing, his inability to complete the schedule and the reasons for such inability.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1) or (2), any census officer charged with the delivery of any schedule for