Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —“census officer” means any person appointed under section 4, 5 or 6;“competent authority” means any public officer or any statutory body established by or under any written law or any officer of the statutory body, being under any obligation imposed by any written law to observe secrecy in respect of any particulars or information obtained by the public officer or the statutory body or officer of the statutory body in the administration of that written law;“dwelling house” means a building, erection or tenement, whether permanent or temporary, which is wholly or partly used for the purpose of human habitation and includes any ship or vessel in Singapore;“schedule” means a schedule in the prescribed form in which are, or are to be, entered the prescribed particulars required for the purposes of a census;“Superintendent” means the Superintendent of Census appointed under section 4.