1978 Ed.]
Census and Statistics
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completion by any person for the purpose of any statistical inquiry may either at the request of such person or of his own motion, obtain verbally from such person the particulars required for completion of the schedule and complete the schedule in the manner required.
(4) Where any specified person is-
(a) resident outside Hong Kong;
(b) a corporation incorporated outside Hong Kong;
(c) unable to complete a schedule by reason of sickness, absence or other sufficient cause,
the delivery of a schedule to the premises of any such specified person shall, for the purposes of this section, be a sufficient requirement to any manager or agent of the specified person, who is in possession of or has access to the information required therefor, to complete the schedule and to return it in the manner directed therein.
(5) Where reasonable grounds exist for believing that any specified person has withheld or incorrectly given any information in his possession which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, is required for the purpose of the completion by such specified person of any schedule, and the Commissioner so directs, a census officer may, at any reasonable time and on production of the certificate issued to him under section 7 for examination by any person requiring evidence of his identity, enter any premises occupied by such specified person and may therein-
(a) deliver or collect any schedule or make any inquiries necessary for the completion or checking thereof;
(b) inspect, extract information from or make copies of any document for the purpose of completing any schedule;
(c) check any information obtained or obtain any further information required in respect of any statistical inquiry;
and may, in the light of any information so obtained, complete any schedule or add to or delete from any schedule any name or particular or otherwise correct any material particular therein:
Provided that the powers conferred by this subsection shall not be exercisable in relation to any statistical inquiry except-
(i) where a date is or dates are specified in the order relating to that statistical inquiry under section 9(2)(a)(iv) or, as the case may be, section 11(2)(b)(i), within 2 months after that date or the later of those dates; or
(ii) where a period is so specified, within that period and the period of 12 months next thereafter.
(6) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.