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gas Kaung mung LOOKIuve Council tras auren day on May

Mam

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

rinted impression has been carefully compared by me lill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly jr of the said bill.

HONG KONG

No. 38 of 1978

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

I assent.

M Nu

Governor

25th May, 1978,

An Ordinance to provide for the taking of a census of population and the collection, compilation and publication of statistical information con- cerning Hong Kong and for matters connected therewith; and to repeal the Census Ordinance.

[26th May, 1978]

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

L This Ordinance may be cited as the Census and Statistics Short dik. Ordinance 1978.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—

"census officer" mcana-

(a) the Commissioner;

(b) any person employed or whose services are used under section 5:

"census of population” means a census of population taken under section

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"Commissioner" means the Commissioner for Census and Statistics

appointed under section 3;

"functions" includes powert and duties;

"occupier". in relation to any premises, includes any person in charge or command thereof and, where such person la a corporation, any

Interpretacion.