CENSUS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 7 Penalties for offences.

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CENSUS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 7

Penalties for offences.

7.(1) If any superintendent, enumerator, or other person employed under
this Act makes wilful default in the performance of his duties under this Act
or any Order in Council or regulations made or instructions issued thereunder,
he shall be guilty of an offence and for each such offence be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(2) If any person by whom a return is to be made

(a)refuses, or without lawful excuse neglects to fill up or cause to be filled
up the form of return to the best of his knowledge and belief, or to sign and
deliver it; or

(b)wilfully makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or
delivered, any false return of any matter specified in the form; or

(c)refuses to answer, or wilfully gives a false answer to, any question
necessary for obtaining the information required to be obtained under or for
the purposes of this Act; or

(d)uses, publishes or communicates to any person otherwise than in accordance
with this Act any information given to him for the purpose of making such
return;

(3) If any person who is required under this Act to answer any question,
refuses to answer, or wilfully gives a false answer, to that question, he
shall be guilty of an offence and shall for each such offence be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds:

Provided that a person, being required to state his religious profession,
shall not be subject to any penalty for refusing to do so.

(4) If any person employed under this Act or under any Act under which a
census was taken before the passing of this Act uses, publishes or
communicates, without lawful authority, any information acquired in the course
of his employment, he shall be guilty of an offence and for each such offence
be liable

(a)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds;

(b)on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds;

(5) If any person, possessed of any information which to his knowledge has
been disclosed in contravention of this Act, uses, publishes or communicates
such information, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall for each offence
be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

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