5. Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the principal enactment are hereby repealed and the following sections substituted therefor;
| 8 A Commissioner may in writing engage any person to be an enumerator, supervisor or chief supervisor, as the case may be, to take or aid in taking or supervise the taking of the census within any specified local area and may at any time discharge such person. |
|
| 9. The Superintendent and every Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, chief supervisor, supervisor and enumerator referred to in the preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall be a census officer within the meaning of this Ordinance, and shall be deemed a public officer within the meaning of the Penal Code. |
|
| 10. Every person occupying any land, building, house, enclosure, vessel, or other place shall allow any census officer such access thereto as he may require for the purpose of the census, and as, having regard to the customs of the country, may be reason able, and shall allow him to paint, mark, or affix on or to the property in the occupation of such person such letters, marks, or numbers as may be necessary for the purposes of the census.". |
|
|
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts