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Ord. No. 38/78

Completion

and return of schedules.

CENSUS AND STATISTICS

(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 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 com- plete 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 Com- missioner 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;

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