Singapore legislation
Clause 11
of Census Bill
Clause 11
Enumeration of persons in public institutions, hotels, etc.
(1)
The Superintendent may deliver or cause to be delivered to —
every person in charge of a hospital, workhouse, prison, police station, reformatory, lock-up, or of any public, charitable, religious or educational institution; and
every keeper, secretary or manager of a hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or club,a schedule to be filled in in respect of the persons who at the time of the taking of a census are in or upon such premises.
(2)
The person to whom the schedule is delivered shall fill in the same or cause it to be filled in, to the best of his knowledge and belief, so far as regards the inmates of the hospital, workhouse, prison, police station, reformatory, lock-up, or public, charitable, religious or educational institution or the hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or club at the time aforesaid, and shall sign his name thereto, and when so required shall deliver the schedule so filled in and signed to an enumerator or a supervisor appointed for the area within which the building is situated or to such other person as the Superintendent may direct.