Offences and penalties

(1) Every person who, (a) refuses or neglects to comply with, or acts in contravention of, any of the provisions of this Act or of any Order or regulations made under this Act; or (b) being a person required under this Act or any Order or regulations made under this Act to make, sign or deliver any documents, makes, signs or delivers or causes to be made, signed or delivered a false document; or (c) being a person required in pursuance of this Act or of any such Order or regulations to answer any question or to supply any information, refuses to answer any question or to supply any information, or knowingly gives a false answer to any question or supplies false information, commits an offence and on summary conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. (2) Every person who, (a) being a person employed in taking a census, without lawful authority publishes or communicates to any person otherwise than in the ordinary course of such employment any information acquired by him in the course of his employment; (b) having possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of this Act, publishes or communicates that information to any other person; or (c) in the pretended performance of duties under this Act or an Order or regulations made under this Act commits an offence and on summary conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.