17. Replacement of section 17 of the principal enactment
ප්රතිචාර සහ සහායනිල ඉංග්රීසි පරිවර්තනය. එය සිංහල හෝ දෙමළ පාඨයට වඩා වෙනස් නම් බලපවත්වන පාඨය කුමක්දැයි පනතේම සඳහන් වේ.
It shall be the duty of every-employer or person in charge.of five or more employees on any mining or quarrying pro-perty, or in any factory, workshop er other commercial or industrial establishment, to make a declaration in the prescribed form to the Superintendent of Census or the Commis-sioner of the district within which such mining or quarrying property, factory, workshop or other commercial or industrial establishment is situated, stating that he has
. under his:employ or in his charge upon, such mining or quarrying property, factory, workshop or other commercial or industrial establishment five or more employees. Such
’ declaration shall be made within fourteen days of the publication, in the Gazette and in one or more newspapers, of a notice by the
Superintendent of Census or the Commis-sioner of the district or area calling for such declaration to be made.-
It shall be the duty of the Superinten-dent of Census or every Commissioner, as the:
case may be, to deliver or cause to be deliver-ed, to every person making the declaration required by subsection (1) a schedule or
Schedules in the prescribed form to be filled up by such person with the required parti-culars.
Every person to whom any schedule is delivered under subsection (2) shall sign and return to the person from whom he shall receive the schedule such receipt therefor as may be provided for that purpose, and shall fill up the schedule or schedules, to the best of his knowledge and belief, with the parti-culars relating to all persons who are on the mining or quarrying property, factory, work-shop, or other commercial or industria!
establishment under his charge at the time of the taking of the ‘census, and shall sign his name thereto, and when so required shall deliver the schedule or schedules so filed up and signed to the enumerator or supervisor appointed for the local area with-in which the mining or quarrying property, factory, workshop or other commercial or industrial establishment is situated to such other person as the Superintendent of Census or the Commissioner.
may direct or in any other manner directed by - the Superinten-dent of Census or the Commissioner. ”.
10.
Insertion
The following new section is hereby inserted imme-diately after section 20, and shall have effect as section 20a of the principal enactment
:—
“How infor-mation supplied under
.
this Ordin-ance to be published
&e.
20a.
section 20a in the enactment
Notwithstanding anything in sec-tion 20 no publication prepared under this
Ordinance shall disclose or facilitate the identification of any particulars as being particulars relating to any individual person.
Every person engaged in the collection and preparation of statistics under this Ordi-nance shall make a declaration in the pres-eribéd form that he will‘not except for the purpose of this Ordinance, disclose or make use of any information supplied under this
Ordinance. ”.
of new princi
8. Census (Amendment) Act, No, 16 of 1981.
Replace-
11, Section 21 of the principal enactment is hereby ment o repealed and the following section substituted therefor :—
, principal
“Penalties.
21.
21 of the
Any census officer or any other ment.
person employed by the Superintendent of
Census or a Commissioner of Census for the purposes of any census under this Ordinance,
~ who—
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without sufficient cause, refuses or neglects to comply with any instruc-tions or directions given to him by the Superintendent or Commissioner or by any other census cfficer on behalf of the Superintendent or
Commissioner or fails to use reason-able diligence and care in performing any duty imposed on him
; or
wilfully puts an offensive or improper question or knowingly makes any false return
; or
asks, receives, or takes from any person other than an authorized officer or Government any payment or reward,
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shall be guilty of an offence and shali on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees, or to both such imprisonment and fine notwithstanding that such fine is in excess of the ordinary jurisdiction of such Magistrate.
Any person who—
refuses to answer to the best of. his knowledge and belief any question asked of him by a census officer which he is legally bound so to answer, or wilfully makes a false
’ answer thereto
; or
- refuses to fill the particulars required
, on the. schedule delivered to him by a census officer which he is legally bound to fill ; or ee ee ee
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makes, signs, delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered any wil-fully false or incorrect schedule, statement or return; or
refuses to allow a census officer such reasonable access to a land, building, house, enclosure, vessel, or other place as he is required by this
Ordinance to allow
; or
removes, obliterates, alters, or injures, before the expiry of four weeks from the time of the taking of census, letters, marks, or numbers which have been painted, marked or affixed for the purposes of the census; or
refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of this Ordinance, or of any rule made thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on con-viction before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees, or to both such imprisonment and fine notwith-standing that such fine is in excess of the ordinary jurisdiction of such Magistrate.
Any person who—
knowingly acts in contravention of a declaration made by him under section 20a; or
being in possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of the provisions of section 20a publishes or communicates that information to any other person, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees, or to both such imprisonment and fine notwith-standing that such fine is in excess of the ordinary jurisdiction of such Magistrate.”.
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