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Vanuatu Consolidated Legislation - 1988 |
Commencement: 2 November 1972
LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
REVISED EDITION 1988
CENSUS
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
5. Penalties
6. Census test period
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CENSUS
To provide for the taking of censuses.
REGULATIONS
(a) directing that a census be taken of the population and housing of Vanuatu or any part or parts thereof;
(b) prescribing the time in relation to which the particulars required by such census shall be stated;
(c) prescribing the dates between which such census is to be taken;
(d) providing for the division of Vanuatu into districts and areas for the purpose of such census;
(e) providing for the appointment or engagement of persons to assist in the taking of such census, whether as field supervisors, enumerators, or otherwise and for the assignment to them of their duties;
(f) prescribing the persons by whom and in respect of whom the returns for the purpose of this Act are to be made;
(g) requiring the person in charge of any institution, whether public or private, to make returns in respect of the inmates thereof;
(h) prescribing the particulars to be stated on census returns:
Provided that no person shall be compelled to state particulars relating to his religion if he objects thereto;
(i) making provision for any other matters necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF PRINCIPAL STATISTICIAN
(2) The Principal Statistician shall in the exercise of his powers and the performance of his duties under this Act be subject to the control of and comply with any lawful directions given by the Minister responsible for statistics.
OBTAINING OF INFORMATION
REPORT
PENALTIES
(a) refuses or neglects to comply with or acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act; or
(b) being a person required by this Act to make, sign, or deliver any document, wilfully makes, signs, or delivers or wilfully causes to be made, signed or delivered, a false document; or
(c) being a person required in pursuance of this Act to answer any question, refuses to answer or wilfully gives a false answer to such question; or
(d) being a person required in pursuance of the provisions of this Act to perform any duties in connection with the taking of the census refuses, without reasonable cause, to carry out his duties,
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding VF25,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) Any person who -
(a) being a person employed in taking a census publishes or communicates with- out lawful authority to any person otherwise than in the ordinary course of such employment any information acquired by him in the course of his employment; or
(b) having possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of this Act, publishes or communicates that information to any other person,
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding VT50,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
CENSUS TEST PERIOD
(2) During any census test period declared under the provisions of subsection (1) the Principal Statistician may by his officers, agents and other persons duly appointed by him for the purpose collect on a voluntary basis any census information and such information shall not be used for any purpose other than for determining the degree of efficacy of the procedures and methods used for the collecting of that information.
(3) The provisions of subsection (2) of section 5, which relate to the secrecy of information collected on a census, shall apply to information collected under the foregoing provisions of this section as though such information were information collected on a census.
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