11. Section 21 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :
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| | (1) Any census officer or any other person employed by the Superintendent of Census or a Commissioner of Census for the purposes of any census under this Ordinance, who
| | | (a) without sufficient cause, refuses or neglects to comply with any instructions or directions given to him by the Superintendent or Commissioner or by any other census officer on behalf of the Superintendent or Commissioner or fails to use reasonable diligence and care in performing any duty imposed on him ; or |
| (b) willfully puts an offensive or improper question or knowingly makes any false return; or |
| (c) asks, receives, or takes from any person other than an authorized officer or Government any payment or reward, |
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| | (2) Any person who
| | | (a) 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 willfully makes a false answer thereto ; or |
| (b) refuses to fill the particulars required on the schedule delivered to him by a census officer which he is legally bound to fill : or |
| (c) makes, signs, delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered any willfully false or incorrect schedule, statement or return ; or |
| (d) 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 |
| (e) 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 |
| (f) refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of this Ordinance, or of any rule made thereunder, |
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| | (3) Any person who
| | | (a) knowingly acts in contravention of a declaration made by him under section 20A ; or |
| (b) 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, |
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