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5. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make, and, when made, revoke, add to, and alter, regulations for carrying out this Ordinance, and all such regulations, revocations, additions, and alterations shall be published in The Gazette, and shall be posted in such places and in such languages as the Governor-in-Council may direct.
6. The master or keeper of every school, gaol, prison, hospital, or public or charitable institution, and the manager of every dock, factory, or place employing over twenty persons, and the proprietor or manager of every hotel, and the master or person in charge of every vessel lying within the waters of this Colony shall be the enumerators of the inmates thereof or the persons residing therein.
7. All officers appointed under this Ordinance may ask all such questions as may be necessary for obtaining the information required under this Ordinance.
8.-(1.) Every person who, without lawful excuse, wilfully refuses or neglects----
(4.) to fill up and sign, according to the truth of the case, or to alter or amend in any particular, if required to do so by the enumerator, any schedule so left at his house or place of residence; or
(5.) to deliver the same to the enumerator or other officer when required to do so; or
(c) to furnish information to any enumerator or to permit any enumerator to obtain information on board his vessel; or
(d) to answer any such question as aforesaid put to him by any enumerator or other officer,
shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
(2.) Every person who-----
(a.) wilfully makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered, any false return as to any of the matters specified in this Ordinance; or
(b.) wilfully obstructs any enumerator or person engaged in the execution of duties required of him under this Ordinance,
shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(3.) Any enumerator appointed under this Ordinance who knowingly makes a false return of any of the matters specified herein shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
(4.) Penalties imposed under this section shall be recoverable under the provisions of any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the jurisdiction of Magistrates and the practice and procedure before them No. 3 of 1890.