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Custody of documents.

False entries

In forms or returns.

Obstructing

CEN19

officers.

Imperson-

tion at

CEDBUS

offlours, ele.

Offences by

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15. Any person having the custody, whether on his own behalf or on the behalf of any other person, of any form or return completed or made under this Ordinance, or of any abstract or other document compiled therefrom which contains particulars relating to any person. or to any such person's business, who-

(a) fails to keep such form, return, abstract or other document at all times in such manner as to prevent any unauthorized person baving access thereto; or

(b) discloses to any unauthorized person the contents of such form,

return, abstract or other document,

shall be guilty of an offence,

16. Any person who enters or causes to be entered in any form or retura required to be completed or made by him under this Ordinance any particular which he knows to be false or which he does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of an offence.

17. Any person who obstructs any census officer acting in the course of his duty under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence.

18. Any person who-

(a) with the intention of obtaining any information from any

person, impersonates a census officer; or

(b) without lawful excuse, has in his possession any document purporting to be a certificate issued under subsection (1) of section 7 or any insignia, arm band or other token issued under subsection (3) of that section or any insignia, arm band or token so nearly resembling any such insignia, arm band or other token as to be likely to deceive,

shall be guilty of an offence.

19. Any census officer and any person engaged in the preparation of any abstract, report or other document in connexion with any censes who~~

(a) without reasonable cause refuses or neglects to comply with

any lawful instruction issued to him by the Commissioner; (b) wilfully in the course of carrying out his duty in connexion with the taking of any census puts to any person an offensive or improper question:

(c) knowingly makes any false return or alters any particular contained in any form or return with the intention to falsify the same: or

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(d) discloses to any unauthorized person any information which has come to his knowledge in the course of his duty in connexion with any census,

shall be guilty of an offence.

20. Any person convicted of an offence-

(a) against section 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 17 or paragraph (a) or (b) of section 19 shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars;

or

(6) against section 15, 16 or 18, or paragraph (c) or (d) of section 19 shall be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.

Penalties.

21. No prosecution for any offence against this Ordinance shall Prosecution be commenced without the written consent of the Attorney General.

of offendca

22. No census officer nor any other person shall be required in Information

obtained by any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever to give in evidence any

census not information relating to particulars concerning any person. institution, admissible business or undertaking which has been obtained by him in the course in cvidcoco. of and as a result of his connexion with the taking of any census or with the preparation of any abstract, report or other document compiled in connexion with such census; and no completed form, return, abstract or other document which contains particulars of any person, institution, business or undertaking shall be admissible in evidence in any such proceedings:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be taken to prevent the production of such evidence as may be necessary for the purpose of any proceedings instituted for an offerice against this Ordinance.

23. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations prescrib- Regulations. ing or providing for...

(a) the employment, payment and duties of census officers; (b) the methods to be used for the taking of any census;

(c) the custody, including destruction, of confidential documents

relating to any census;

(d) the preparation and publication of census reports;

(e) generally, the carrying into effect of the provisions of this

Ordinance.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that contra- vention of any of the provisions of such regulations shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of one thousand dollars.