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Duty of

secrecy. 10. & 11 Geo. 5, c. 41, s. 8.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1881.

(2) Every person who:-

(a) being employed in the taking of a census, without lawful authority publishes or com- municates to any other person otherwise than in the ordinary course of such employment, any information acquired by him in the course of such employment; or

(b) being in possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in con- travention of this Ordinance, publishes or communicates that information to any other person;

shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall upon conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years and to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

7. The Census Ordinance, 1881, is repealed.

Objects and Reasons.

This Ordinance which follows very closely the pro- visions of the Census Act, 1920, (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 41.) is intended to replace the Census Ordinance, 1881. Paragraph 3 (1) (e) imposing duties as to re- turns on persons in charge of places where more than twenty persons are employed is derived from section 6 of the repealed Ordinance.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

August, 1930.