Census Act, 1948
10.Occupier or manager to fill up schedule:-
(1) Subject to such orders as the State
Government may issue in this behalf, a census-officer may, within the local
area for which he is appointed, leave or cause to be left a schedule at any
dwelling house or with the manager or any officer of any commercial or
industrial establishment, for the purpose of its being filled up by the
occupier of such house or of any specified part thereof or by such manager or
officer with such particulars as the State Government may direct regarding the
inmates of such house or part thereof, or the persons employed under such
manager or officer, as the case may be, at the time of the taking of the
census.
(2) When such schedule has been so left, the said occupier, manager or officer,
as the case may be, shall it up or cause it to be filled up to the best of his
knowledge or belief so far as regards the inmates of such house or part thereof
or the persons employed under him. as the case may be, at the time aforesaid,
and shall sign his name thereto and, when so required, shall deliver the
schedule so filled up and signed to the census-officer or to such person as the
census-officer may direct.