9. Section 17 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
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| | (1) It shall be the duty of every employer or person in charge of five or more employees on any mining or quarrying property, or in any factory, workshop or other commercial or industrial establishment, to make a declaration in the prescribed form to the Superintendent of Census or the Commissioner 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 Commissioner of the district or area calling for such declaration to be made. | | |
| | (2) It shall be the duty of the Superintendent 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 particulars. | | |
| | (3) 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 particulars relating to all persons who are on the mining or quarrying property, factory, work shop, or other commercial or industrial 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 filled 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 Superintendent of Census or the Commissioner.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts