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← Census Act 1973

Census Act 1973 s 11

s 11 Enumeration of persons in public institutions, hotels, etc.

11.—(1) The Superintendent may deliver or cause to be delivered to the following persons a schedule to be filled in in respect of the persons who at the time of the taking of a census are in or upon those premises:(a) every person in charge of a hospital, workhouse, prison, police station, reformatory or lock-up, or of any public, charitable, religious or educational institution; (b) every keeper, secretary or manager of a hotel, boarding house, lodging house or club. (2) The person to whom the schedule is delivered must —(a) fill in the schedule or cause it to be filled in, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, so far as regards the inmates of the hospital, workhouse, prison, police station, reformatory, lock-up, or public, charitable, religious or educational institution or the hotel, boarding house, lodging house or club within the time mentioned in the schedule, and must sign his or her name to the schedule; and (b) when so required, deliver the schedule so filled in and signed to an enumerator or a supervisor appointed for the area within which the building is situated or to any other person that the Superintendent may direct.

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