Section 4. (1) _

4. (1) `(a)` Every `6` [ACT `IT` I Iadialz Ce?as.us. Discliarge duties of cen- of 4. (1) (a) Every officer in command of any body sns-officers `in` of rnen belonging to His ~ajcst,g's naval, military certain cases. or air forces or to Eis Mhjesty'~ Indian Marine Service or of any vessel of war, . (b) every person (except a pilot or harbour-master) having charge or control of a vessel, `(6)` every person in charge of a lunatic asylum, hospital, workhouse, prison, reformatory or locli-up or of any public, charitable, religious or educational institution, (d) every keeper, secretary or manager of any sarai, hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house, emigration depbt or club, and (e) every occupant of immoveable property wllo has at the time of the taking of the census not less than twenty persons living on or in such property, and every manager or officer of arailway `o~` other commercial or indust) ial establishment who has at such time not less than ten persons employed under him, shall, if so required by the District Magistrate or by such officer as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf, perform such of the dnties of a censusofficer in relation to the persons who at the time of the taking of the census are under his command or charge, or are inmates of his honse or present on or in such immoveable property or are employed under him as such Magistrate or officer may, by written order, direct. ' a (2) All the provisions or" this Act relating to census-officers shall apply, so far as they can be made applicable, to all persons while performing such duties under this section, and any person refusing or neglecting io perform any duty which he is directed under this section to perform shall be deemed to have ohmrnitted an offence under section 187 of the Indian XLV of 1860. Penal Code. Power of Dig- 5. (1) The District Magistrate, or such officer as trict trate Magis- to call the Local- Government may appoint in this behalf for upon certain 8Ply local area, may, by written order, which shall pfrsons to give assist. have an( e. * A p 2 $: `4 9` 3 t :$ . , '9 Piacliccn Censzcs. hare effect throughout; the limits of his clistcicl; or of such local area, as the case may be, call upon- - (a) all owners and scci~piers of land, tenure-holders, farmers, assignees of land-revenue and lessees of fisheries under Ishe Burma Pisheries Act, 1905, or the Upper Burma Land and Rsvenue Regulation, 1889, or their agents, - (8) alll village-officers and servants in estates as defined in the Madras Proprietary Estates" Viilage Service Act, 1894, and Hnr. ~ c III t ITI of 1~89. - (c) all members of panchayats appointed under. the Village Chaukidari Act, 1870, or the Sylhet and Cachar Rural Police Rcgulation, 1883, or members of union boards established under the Bengal Village BelfGovernment Act, 1919, d l ghatmrals, Unit-tahuildars and membcrs of a panchayat appointed under the Chota Kagpur Rural Police Act, 1914, all members of village authorities constituted under the Assam Local Self-Cioverament Act, 1915,. and all village-headmen in the Kumaum Division of the United Provinces, Ron. A C ~ v of B. nnd 0. ~ c t Assam A C ~ I to give such assistance as he needs towards the taking of a census of the persons who are at the time of the taltinp of the census on the lands of such owners, o,ccuplers, holders, farmors and assignees, or within the limits of such fisheriee or in the villa,ges or other areas 'for which such village-officers and servants, panchayats, union boards, village atzthoritiesr, ghat.wals, Unit-tahsildars or-village-headmen are appoint - ed, as the case may be. (2) Such order-shall specify the nature of the assistance required, and such owners, occupiers, holders, farmers, assignees.and lessees, or their agents, and such village-officers and servants, the members of such panchayats, union boards and village autho~ities, and such -ghatwals, Unit-tahsildars and villsgeheadmen shall be bound to obey it. 6, E ~ e q , I 2 `Asking` q11c.t il~ns I f by 6. Evcry census-officer may ask all such ques- rcrlsLs-ofi-[tions of ][all ][persons mrithin the limits of the local area ] cCrS. for which he is appointed as, by instructionn issued I in this behalf by the Local Government and published in the official Gazette, he may be direcied to ask. `7,` Evcry person of whom any question is asked uuder the last foregoing section shall be legally bourld to answer such question to the best of his knowledge or belief : - Obligntiorl to arls.r+er qoes't~one. P~ovidecl that no person 5hall be bound to state $he name of any female member of his household, and no woman shall be bound to state the name of her husband or deceased husband or of any other person whose name she is forbidden by custom to mention,