Power to enter house or other place

(1) It shall be lawful for any supervisor or enumerator so appointed when necessary for the purpose of taking a census, to enter into any house or other place within the district or sub- district to which he may be assigned on the day appointed for the taking of a census and from time to time within the four weeks immediately preceding and the three months immediately following that day, whenever it may be necessary for the purpose of obtaining, verifying or correcting any information relating to a census. (2) Every person who obstructs or impedes a supervisor or enumerator in the exercise of his power of entry under subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.