Census Act - Singapore Statutes Online

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3 Power to direct census to be taken

4 Appointment of Superintendent of Census

5 Appointment of Deputy Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents of Census

6 Appointment of supervisors and enumerators

8 Occupier to allow access and permit affixing of numbers

9 Questions by census officers

10 Delivery and filling in of schedule

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

12 Enumeration of naval, military and air forces, travellers, etc.

13 Request for information from competent authorities

14 Certain employers may be required to be enumerators

15 Government employees to assist in taking census

16 Schedules and returns to be delivered by enumerator to supervisor and forwarded to Superintendent

17 Release of census information

18 Disclosure of census information

19 Offences by census officers

21 Impersonation of a census officer

22 No prosecution without sanction

23 Census records not admissible in evidence

25 Amendment of Schedules

26 Transitional provision

Power to direct census to be taken

3. The Minister may by notification in the Gazette direct that a census be taken throughout Singapore or of any specified area of Singapore of the population, housing, agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, trade, labour, industry, building and construction, commerce, education, health and family planning, transportation or such other matters as he may consider necessary or desirable and may by the same or a different notification prescribe —

(a)	the date on which the census is to be taken; and
(b)	the particulars to be obtained for the purposes of the census.

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