Section 17

refuses to answer truthfully, to the best of his knowledge and belief, any question asked of him by a census officer which he is legally bound so to answer or willfully makes a false answer thereto;

makes, signs, delivers or causes to be made, signed, or delivered any wilfully false or incorrect schedule, statement, or return;

refuses to allow a census officer such reasonable access to any house, land, enclosure, vessel, or other place as he is required by this Act to allow;

removes, obliterates, alters or injures, before the expiry of twelve months from the time of taking the census, any

14 Laws of Malaysia letters, marks or numbers which have been painted, marked or affixed for the purposes of the census; or

refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of this

Act or of any regulation made thereunder, 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 person who impersonates a census officer shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

No prosecution without sanction of the Public Prosecutor