CENSUS ORDINANCE, 1881

CENSUS ORDINANCE, 1881

No. 2 of 1881.
An Ordinance to make provision for taking from time to
time the census of the Colony.

[14th March, 1881.]

1. This Ordinance may cited as the Census Ordinance,
1881.

2. (1) The Governor in Council may authorise and
direct a census to be taken of the inhabitants of the Colony
at such times as he thinks fit, and may appoint such census
officers as may be necessary for the purpose of conducting
the census and acting as enumerators, and may cancel such
appointment.

(2) Notice of the intention to take such census, and of the
date of such intended taking, shall be punished in the
Gazette at least ten days, purpose.

3. The officers so appointed shall, in accordance with the
instructions of the Governor, make such arrangement as
may be necessary for the purpose.

4. Schedules shall be prepared for the purpose of being
filled up by or on behalf of the several occupiers of every
dwelling-house or place of residence in the Colony, and by
or on behalf of the persons on board every vessel in the
waters of the Colony, with such particulars as to the
Governor in Council may seem fit.

5. The Governor in Council may make regulations for
carrying out this Ordinance, and all such regulations shall
be printed in such languages an posted in such places as
the Governor in Council may seem fit.

6. The master or keeper of very school, gaol, prison
hospital, or public or charitable institution, and the manager
of every dock, factory, or place employing over twentY
persons, and the proprietor or manager of every hotel, and
the master or person in charge of very vessel lying within
the waters of the Colony shall be the enumerators of the
inmates thereof or the persons residing therein.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.


7. the census officers and enumerators may ask all such
questions as may be necessary for obtaining the information
required under this Ordinance.

8.-(1) Every person who, without lawful excuse, wilfully
refuses or neglects-

(a) to fill up and sign, according to the truth of the case,
or to alter or amend in any particular, if required to do so
by the enumerator or census officer, any schedule left at
his house or place of residence; or

(b) to deliver the same to the emumerator or census officer
when required to do so; or

(c) to furnish information to any enumerator or census
office, or to permit im to obtain information in his building
or place, or on board his vessel; or

(d) to answer any such question as aforesaid put to him
by any enumerator or census officer,

shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not
exceeding twenty-five dollars.

(2) Every person who wilfully obstructs any census officer
or enumerator, or other person engaged in the conduct of
the census, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

[(3), rep. No. 21 of 1922.]

9. The Governor shall award such remuneration as he
may think fit to census officers and enumerators.
[Originally No. 2 of 1881. No. 21 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Governor in Council may direct census, and appoint officers. Making of necessary arrangements. Preparation of schedule. Regulations. Enumeration of inmates of schools, etc. Officer to ask questions. Remuneration of officers.

[Originally No. 2 of 1881. No. 21 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Governor in Council may direct census, and appoint officers. Making of necessary arrangements. Preparation of schedule. Regulations. Enumeration of inmates of schools, etc. Officer to ask questions. Remuneration of officers.

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