Census Act · s 17

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17.
Other offences
(1) Any person who —
(a) refuses to answer truthfully, 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
(b) makes, signs, delivers or causes to be made, signed, or delivered any wilfully false or incorrect schedule, statement, or return; or
(c) refuses to allow a census officer such reasonable access to any land, house, enclosure, vessel or other place as he is required by this Act to allow; or
(d) removes, obliterates, alters or injures, before the expiry of 6
months from the time of taking the census, any letters, marks or numbers which have been painted, marked or affixed for the purposes of the census; or
(e) refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of this Act or of any rule made thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $2,500 and imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Any person who impersonates a census officer shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for 12 months.

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s 17Other offences

(1)

Any person who —

(a)

refuses to answer truthfully, 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;

(b)

makes, signs, delivers or causes to be made, signed, or delivered any wilfully false or incorrect schedule, statement, or return; or

(c)

refuses to allow a census officer such reasonable access to any land, house, enclosure, vessel or other place as he is required by this Act to allow; or

(d)

removes, obliterates, alters or injures, before the expiry of 6

months from the time of taking the census, any letters, marks or numbers which have been painted, marked or affixed for the purposes of the census; or

(e)

refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of this Act or of any rule made thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $2,500 and imprisonment for 6 months.

(2)

Any person who impersonates a census officer shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for 12 months.