Hong Kong Ordinances

CENSUS AND STATISTICS ORDINANCE - SECT 19

Offences by census officers

Any census officer and any person engaged in the preparation of any schedule,
return, abstract, report or other document in connexion with any
statistical inquiry who-

   (a)  without reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to comply with any
        lawful instruction issued to him by the Commissioner;

   (b)  in the pretended performance of his duties under this Ordinance,
        obtains or seeks to obtain any information which he is not authorized
        to obtain; or

   (c)  knowingly makes any false return or alters any particular contained in
        any such schedule, return, abstract, report or other document with
        intent to falsify the same, commits an offence.