Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
4. (1) (a) Every military or naval officer in command of any body of men belonging to Her Majesty's military or naval forces or of any vessel of war,
(b) every person (except a pilot or harbour-master) having charge or control of a vessel,
(c) every person in charge of a lunatic asylum, hospital, workhouse, prison, reformatory or lock-up, or of any public, charitable, religious or educational institution,
(d) every keeper, secretary or manager of any sarai, hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or club, and
(e) every occupant of immoveable property having at the time of the taking of the census not less than fifty persons employed under him, or living, on or in such property,
shall, if so required by the District Magistrate, or by such officer as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf by name or by office, perform such of the duties of a census-officer in relation to the persons who at the time of the taking of the census are under his command or charge, or inmates of his house or present on or in such property, as such Magistrate or officer may, by written order, direct.
(2) All the provisions of this Act relating to census-officers shall apply, so far as they can be made applicable, to all such persons while performing such duties, and any person refusing or neglecting to perform any duty which he is directed under this section to perform shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 187 of the Indian Penal Code.
Source: India Code