Appointment of Supervisors and Enumerators

(1) The Census Officer shall appoint such suitable persons as may be necessary to be District Supervisors, Field Supervisors and Enumerators and shall assign each Field Supervisor to one or more Supervisor’s Districts and each Enumerator to one or more Enumeration Districts. (2) Notice of the appointment of every Supervisor shall be published in the Gazette. (3) Where it appears to the Census Officer that a Supervisor or Enumerator is by reason of illness or for any other cause, unfit to perform his duties under the Act or these Regulations, the Census Officer may appoint some fit and proper person in his place to perform those duties. (4) The Census Officer may require all justices of the peace, priests, clergymen, ministers of any religious denomination, registrars and deputy registrars of births and deaths, teachers employed in Government schools and in schools receiving grant within the meaning of the Education Act, Assistant Superintendents of Police, non-commissioned officers of police, constables, and all other persons in receipt of wages or salary from public funds to perform the duties of supervisors or enumerators as prescribed in these regulations.