Section 10. In any of the following cases, namely:

10. In any of the following cases, namely:— Penalties. (a) if a census-officer without sufficient cause refuses or neglects to act as such, (b) if a census-officer intentionally puts any offensive or improper question or knowingly makes any false return, (c) if any person refuses to answer to the best of his knowledge or belief any question asked of him by a census-officer which he is legally bound by section 7 so to answer, (d) if any person occupying any house, enclosure, vessel or other place refuses to allow a census-officer such reasonable access thereto as he is required by section 8 to allow, (e) if any person removes, obliterates, alters or injures before the thirty-first day of March, 1891, any letters, marks or numbers which have been painted or affixed for the purposes of the census, (f) if any occupier of a dwelling-house or part thereof knowingly and without sufficient cause fails to comply with the provisions of section 9 or makes any false return under that section, he 174 Census. [ACT XVII he shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.