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(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.

29 No penalty for failure to state the ethnic group or religion of a person

  A person is not liable to a penalty for failing to answer a question concerning the ethnic group or religion of a person.

30 Publication

 (1) The Statistician shall compile and tabulate the information collected in pursuance of this Ordinance, and shall publish such statistics and abstracts of that information as the Minister directs.

 (2) The Statistician may publish such observations as he thinks fit on any statistics or abstracts published by him under the last preceding subsection.

 (3) Statistics and abstracts of information collected in pursuance of this Ordinance may be published in conjunction with any statistics or abstracts of information collected by the Commonwealth Statistician, or by the Statistician of another Territory of the Commonwealth, in pursuance of a law relating to the taking and collection of the Census in the Commonwealth or in that other Territory.

 (4) Nothing in this section authorizes the Statistician to disclose the identity of any person who supplied any information in the course of the taking and collection of the Census or in the course of the collection of statistics under this Ordinance.

31 Regulations

  The Minister may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Ordinance, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Ordinance to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Ordinance and, in particular, prescribing penalties not exceeding a fine of $100 for offences against the regulations.
The Schedule
(section 23J)

Census Ordinance 1961

Undertaking of fidelity and secrecy

 I, , of , a person
appointed under the Census and Statistics Ordinance 1961 to the office of              , hereby undertake that, in connexion with the taking and collection of the Census or the collection of Statistics in the year 19     :
    (a) I will faithfully and to the best of my ability execute the powers conferred, and carry out the duties imposed, on me under the Census and Statistics Ordinance 1961 and the instructions issued in pursuance of that Ordinance;
(b) I will not desert from my duty;
    (c) I will not, without just excuse, refuse or neglect to perform the duties of my office;
    (d) I will not, wilfully or without lawful authority, alter any document or form under that Ordinance;
    (e) I will not wilfully sign any untrue document or form; and
    (f) I will not, except as allowed by that Ordinance, divulge the