The Indian Census Act 1910, 16 of 1910, (Rep., Act 12 of 1927)

Section 8. Every person occupying any house, enclosure, vessel or other place shall allow census-officers such

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

8. Every person occupying any house, enclosure, vessel or other place shall allow census-officers such access thereto as they may require for the purpose of the census, and as, having regard to the customs of the country, may `be` reasonable, and shall allow them to paint on or affix to the place such letters, marks or numbers as may be necessary for the purposes of the census. Occupier to allow access, permit affiY'ng of numbers. Ocoupier or 9. ( I ) Subject to such orders as the Local Gov- manager to fill up up sche- ernment may issue in this behalf, any census-officer dule. may leave, or cause to be left,- Ocoupier or manager to fill up up dule. - (a) at any dwelling-house within the local area for which he is appointed, or - (b) with any manager or officer of any commercial or industrial enterprise who has at the time of the taking of the census not less than twenty persons employed under him, a schedule for the purpose of its being filled up by the occupier of such house or of any specified part thereof or by such manager or officer with such particulars as the Local Government may direct regarding the inmates of such house or part or the persons employed under such manager or officer at the time of the taking of the census. ~ ( 2 ) When any such schedule has been so left, the occup,ier of the house or part to which it relates or the manager or officer with whom it is left shall fill it up, or cause it to be filled up, to the best of his knowledge or belief, so far as regards the inmates of such house or part, as the case may be, or the persons employed under him at the time aforesaid, and shall sign his name thereto, and, when so required, shall deliver the schedule so filled up and signed to the census-officer or to such person as he may direct. 10. `In` 1 1 j . . 1910.1 Census.

Source: India Code