Collection, correction, and copying of schedules.

Enumeration in public and charitable institutions.

Returns of persons travelling or

up by the occupier for whom it is left, and that the enumerator will collect all such schedules within his district on the Monday then next following.

(3.) Every occupier for whom any such schedule has been so left shall fill up the schedule, to the best of his knowledge and belief, so far as relates to all persons dwelling in the house, tenement, or apartment occupied by him, and shall sign his name thereto, and shall deliver the schedule so filled up to the enumerator when required so to do.

(4.) In this section the expression "dwelling-house" shall include every building and tenement of which the whole or any part is used for the purpose of human habitation, and where a dwelling-house is let or sub-let in different tenements or apartments and occupied distinctly by different persons or families a separate schedule shall be left with or for and shall be filled up by the occupier of each such distinct tenement or apartment.

(5.) For the purposes of this section, a person who is travelling or at work on the night of the census day, and who returns to a house on the morning of the following day, shall be treated as abiding in that house on the night of the census day.

5.-(1.) Every enumerator shall visit every house in his district, and shall collect all the schedules so left within his district, from house to house, and so far as may be possible on the day next following the census day, and shall complete such of the schedules as on delivery thereof to him appear to be defective, and correct such as he finds to be erroneous, and shall copy the schedules, when completed and corrected, and shall furnish a return, according to the best information which he is able to obtain, of all the persons present within his district on the night of the census. day, but not included in the schedules collected by him.

(2.) Every enumerator shall also furnish the prescribed particulars as to whether or not houses are occupied or inhabited, and as to the counties, boroughs, parishes, and other areas for electoral or administrative purposes, and the ecclesiastical parishes or districts, in which the houses are situate.

6. The governor, master, or chief resident officer of every prison, workhouse, hospital, or lunatic asylum, and of every public or charitable institution which may be determined upon by the Registrar General, shall be the enumerator of the inmates thereof, and shall conform to such instructions as may be sent to him by the authority of the Local Government Board for obtaining the returns required by this Act, so far as may be practicable, with respect to the inmates.

7. The Registrar General shall, subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, obtain returns of the particulars required on shipboard by this Act with respect to persons who during the night of the census day were travelling or on shipboard, or for any other reason were not abiding on that night in any house of which account is to be taken by the enumerators, and shall include these returns in the abstracts to be made under this Act.

or not in houses.

8.--(1.) The Registrar General shall, subject to the approval of Abstracts of the Local Government Board, prepare a preliminary abstract and returns. a detailed abstract of the census returns.

(2.) The preliminary abstract shall be printed and laid before both Houses of Parliament within five months next after the census day, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting, then within the first fourteen days of the session then next ensuing.

(3.) The detailed abstract shall be printed and laid before both Houses of Parliament at as early a date as may be found practicable.

abstracts

9. The Registrar General may, if he thinks fit, at the request and Power to cost of the council of any county, borough, or urban district, cause supply further abstracts to be prepared containing statistical information with to local respect to the county, borough, or district, which can be derived authorities. from the census returns but is not supplied by the census report, and which, in his opinion, the council may reasonably require.

10.-(1.) Instructions issued under this Act may prescribe, Matters to be among other things

(a) the mode in which enumeration districts are to be formed and enumerators appointed; and

(b) the duties of superintendent registrars, registrars, enumerators, and other persons employed under this Act; and

(c) the mode in which the householders' schedules are to be copied and the persons to whom the schedules and copies are to be delivered; and

(d) the persons by whom and the mode in which the copies are to be summarised, verified, examined, corrected, and otherwise dealt with; and

(e) the allowances to be paid to persons employed under this Act; and

(f) the mode in which and the persons by whom the amount of the allowances payable in respect of each registration district is to be certified, and the persons by whom and the mode in which the payments are to be made; and

(g) anything authorised by this Act to be prescribed.

(2.) The scale of allowances payable under this Act shall be subject to the approval of the Treasury.

prescribed by instructions.

11.—(1.) If any superintendent registrar, registrar, enumerator, Penalties for or other person employed under this Act, makes wilful default in offences. the performance of any of his duties under this Act, or makes any wilfully false declaration, he shall for each offence be liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(2.) If any occupier for whom a schedule is left under this Act

(a) wilfully refuses, or without lawful excuse neglects, to fill up the schedule to the best of his knowledge and belief, or to sign and deliver it as by this Act required; or

(b) wilfully makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered, any false return of any matter specified in the schedule; cr

(c) refuses to answer, or wilfully gives a false answer to, any question necessary for obtaining the information required to be obtained under this Act;

he shall for each offence be liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(3.) If any person employed in taking the census communicates, without lawful authority, any information acquired in the course of his employment, he shall be guilty of a breach of official trust 52 & 53 Vict. within the meaning of the Official Secrets Act, 1889, and that Act shall apply accordingly.

c. 52.

12. In the application of this Act to Scotland

(1.) "Secretary for Scotland" shall be substituted for "Local Government Board" and "Board"; "Registrar General for Scotland" for "Registrar General"; "registration district" for "registration sub-district"; "burgh" for "borough"; "poorhouse" for "workhouse"; and "police burgh" for "urban district":

(2.) The expression "council" shall include the commissioners of a police burgh:

(3.) The schedules under this Act shall include particulars
showing whether any person who abode in any house on
the night of the census day (being three years of age or
upwards) speaks English only or Gaelic only; or both English
and Gaelic:

(4.) The particulars to be furnished by the enumerators shall
show, with respect to each dwelling-house, the number of
rooms, including a kitchen (if any) as a room, having a
window, not being a window with a borrowed light :
(5.) Sheriffs, sheriff clerks, chief magistrates, town clerks,
inspectors of poor and assistant inspectors of poor, shall
perform such duties as may be prescribed, including, if so
prescribed, such duties as were imposed on them by the
Census (Scotland) Act, 1890.

13.-(1.) This Act shall not extend to Ireland.

(2.) This Act may be cited as the Census (Great Britain) Act, 1900.

CHAPTER 5.

An Act to provide, during Twelve Months, for the
Discipline and Regulation of the Army.

[9th April 1900.]

HEREAS the raising or keeping of a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law :

And whereas it is adjudged necessary by Her Majesty and this present Parliament, that a body of forces should be continued for the safety of the United Kingdom and the defence of the possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, and that the whole number of such forces should consist of four hundred and thirty thousand, including those to be employed at the depôts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the training of recruits for service at home and abroad, but exclusive of the numbers actually serving within Her Majesty's Indian possessions:

And whereas it is also judged necessary for the safety of the United Kingdom, and the defence of the possessions of this realm, that a body of Royal Marine forces should be employed in Her Majesty's fleet and naval service, under the direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid:

And whereas the said marine forces may frequently be quartered or be on shore, or sent to do duty or be on board transport ships or vessels, merchant ships or vessels, or other ships or vessels, or they may be under other circumstances in which they will not be subject to the laws relating to the government of Her Majesty's forces by

sea:

And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned forces, and other persons subject to military law, in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed, and that persons belonging to the said forces who mutiny or stir up sedition, or desert Her Majesty's service, or are guilty of crimes and offences to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law will allow

And whereas the Army Act will expire in the year one thousand 44 & 45 Vict. nine hundred on the following days:

(a.) In the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle
of Man, on the thirtieth day of April; and

(b.) Elsewhere in Europe, inclusive of Malta, also in the West
Indies and America, on the thirty-first day of July; and
(c.) Elsewhere, whether within or without Her Majesty's
dominions, on the thirty-first day of December:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Army (Annual) Act, 1900.

c. 58.

Short title.

2. (1.) The Army Act shall be and remain in force during the periods herein-after mentioned, and no longer, unless otherwise provided by Parliament; that is to say,

(a.) Within the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, from the thirtieth day of April one thousand nine hundred to the thirtieth day of April one thousand nine hundred and one, both inclusive; and

(b.) Elsewhere in Europe, inclusive of Malta, also in the West Indies and America, from the thirty-first day of July one thousand nine hundred to the thirty-first day of July one thousand nine hundred and one, both inclusive; and

(c.) Elsewhere, whether within or without Her Majesty's dominions, from the thirty-first day of December one thousand nine hundred to the thirty-first day of December one thousand nine hundred and one, both inclusive;

and the day from which the Army Act is continued in any place by this Act is in relation to that place referred to in this Act as the commencement of this Act.

(2.) The Army Act, while in force, shall apply to persons subject to military law, whether within or without Her Majesty's

dominions.

(3.) A person subject to military law shall not be exempted from the provisions of the Army Act by reason only that the number of the forces for the time being in the service of Her Majesty, exclusive of the marine forces, is either greater or less than the number herein-before mentioned.

3. There shall be paid to the keeper of a victualling house for the accommodation provided by him in pursuance of the Army Act the prices specified in the schedule to this Act.

Amendments of Army Act.

4. At the end of subsection (1) (c) of section seventy-eight of the Army Act, after the words "twelve years" shall be added the words" or any shorter period."

5. At the end of section one hundred and sixty-one of the Army Act there shall be added the words "Provided that a Secretary "of State may restore all or any part of the service forfeited

under this section to any soldier who may perform good or "faithful service, or may otherwise be deemed by such Secretary "of State to merit such restoration of service."