Malaysia legislation
Section 3
Section 3
Power to direct census to be taken
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may, by notification in the Gazette, from time to time direct that a census be taken throughout Malaysia or any specified area of Malaysia of the population, agriculture
(including animal husbandry), trade, labour, industry, commerce, orphanhood, widowhood, blindness or other specified infirmity, disease or affliction, or such other matters as he may consider necessary or desirable in order to ascertain the social, civil or economic condition or state of health of the inhabitants of Malaysia, and may by the same or a different notification appoint a
Commissioner to supervise the taking of the census.