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(a) during business hours, enter and inspect any shop or other place where goods are sold and inspect any goods for sale; or
 (b) during working hours, enter any factory, workshop or place where persons are employed and inspect any part of it, and all plant and machinery used in connection with it.

Part V Miscellaneous

23J Undertaking of fidelity and secrecy

  The Statistician and each officer shall, before exercising any power or performing any duty conferred or imposed upon him under this Ordinance, sign, in the presence of a witness, an undertaking of fidelity and secrecy in accordance with the form in the Schedule.

24 Failure by officers to perform duties

  An officer who has signed an undertaking referred to in section 23J of this Ordinance shall not refuse or wilfully neglect, without just excuse, to perform the duties of his office.

Penalty:   Forty dollars.

25 Untrue returns by officers

  An officer shall not wilfully or without lawful authority alter a document or form under this Ordinance or sign a document or form that, to his knowledge, contains a false statement.

Penalty:   One hundred dollars.

26 Officers to observe secrecy

  The Statistician, an officer or the occupier of a dwelling shall not, except as permitted by this Ordinance, divulge the contents of a form filled up, or any information furnished for the purpose of the taking and collection of a Census or the collection of statistics.

Penalty:   One hundred dollars.

27 Penalty for false returns or answers

  A person shall not, in a form or document filled up or furnished for the purpose of the taking and collection of a Census or the collection of statistics, or in an answer to a question asked him under the authority conferred by this Ordinance, make a statement that, to his knowledge, is untrue in a material particular.

Penalty:   One hundred dollars.

28 Forgery of forms

 (1) A person who forges, or utters knowing it to be forged, a form or document under this Ordinance is guilty of an offence against this section.

 (2) An offence against this section may be tried by the Supreme Court, by the District Court or by the Magistrate's Court, but an offender is not liable to be punished more than once in respect of the same offence.

 (3) The punishment for an offence against this section is:
 (a) if the offence is tried by the Supreme Court — imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years;
 (b) if the offence is tried by the District Court — imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year; or
 (c) if the offence is tried by the Magistrate's Court — imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

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