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Appendix A.

CENSUS ORDINANCE, NO. 4 OF 1931.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Census Ordinance, 1931.

Short

title.

2.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Power to Governor in Council from time to time to order that a census shall be taken for the Colony or for any part thereof, and any order under this section may prescribe :-

(a) the date on which the census is to be taken;

(b) the persons by whom and with respect to whom the returns for the

purpose of the census are to be made; and

(c) the particulars to be stated in the returns.

(2) Any Order in Council made under this section may be revoked, amended or varied by a subsequent Order.

direct taking of Census. 10 & 11 Geo. 5,

c. 41, s. 1.

3.-(1) When any such Order has been made, it shall be lawful for the Regula- Governor in Council to make regulations :--

tions.

10 & 11 Geo. 5,

(a) providing for the division of the Colony into districts for the purpose c. 41, s. 3.

of the census and the appointment of persons to act in these districts in connection with the census;

(b) requiring such persons as may be employed for the purpose of the census, to perform such duties in connection with the taking of the census as may be prescribed;

(c) requiring persons employed for the purpose of taking the census to make

a statutory declaration with respect to the performance of their duties; (d) requiring the chief officer of public or charitable institutions or of any other institution prescribed by the regulations to make returns with respect to the inmates thereof;

(e) requiring the proprietor, master, keeper, manager or person in charge, of any place where not less than twenty people are employed, or of any dock, factory, workshop, school, hospital, hotel or vessel lying within the waters of the Colony to make returns of the inmates therein;

(f) requiring information to be given to the persons liable to make returns

by the persons with respect to whom the returns are to be made;

(g) with respect to the forms to be used in the taking of the census;

(h) directing the Superintendent of Census to make reports on the census

returns;

(directing the publication of the reports made by the Superintendent of

Census or any of them; and

(j) making provision with respect to any matter necessary to carry into effect

the order for taking the census.

(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulations shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulations shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.