Section 5. (1) The District Magistrate, or such officer as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf by n

5. (1) The District Magistrate, or such officer as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf by name or by office for any local area, may, by written order, call upon all owners and occupiers of land, tenure-holders, farmers, assignees of land-revenue and lessees of fisheries under the Burma Fisheries Act, 1875, or the Upper Burma Land and Revenue Regulation, 1889, in his district or in such local area, as the case may be, or their agents, upon village-servants in permanently-settled estates in the Madras Presidency, and Power of District Magistrate to call upon certain persons to give assistance. 172 Census. [ACT XVII and upon all members of panchayats appointed in his district or in such local area under the Village Chauki-dari Act, 1870 (Bengal), or the Chota Nagpore Rural Police Act, 1887, or the Silhat and Kachar Rural Police Regulation, 1883, to give such assistance as he needs towards the taking of a census of the persons who are at the time of the taking of the census on the lands of such owners, occupiers, holders, farmers and assignees, or within the limits of such fisheries or in the villages for which such village-servants or pan-chayats are appointed, as the case may be. (2) Such order shall specify the nature of the assistance required, and such owners, occupiers, holders, farmers, assignees, lessees or their agents, and such village-servants and the members of such pan-chayats, shall be bound to obey it.