Section 16

without sufficient cause, refuses or neglects to comply with any instruction or requisition addressed to him by the

Commissioner, an Assistant Commissioner or a District

Superintendent, or fails to use reasonable diligence in performing any duty imposed on him;

wilfully puts an offensive or improper question;

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knowingly makes any false return; or

asks, receives, or takes from any person other than an authorized officer of the Government any payment or reward, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both.

Any member of a committee appointed under subsection 4(1), any census officer and any person employed in the preparation of the abstracts required to be made under section 15 who discloses or makes use of, except for the purposes of this Act, any information which has come to his knowledge in the course of his duty as such shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

Other offences