law: Census Act, 1948
  
  10.Occupier or manager to fill up schedule:-
  (1) Subject to such orders as the State
  
  Government may issue in this behalf, a census-officer may, within the local
  
  area for which he is appointed, leave or cause to be left a schedule at any
  
  dwelling house or with the manager or any officer of any commercial or
  
  industrial establishment, for the purpose of its being filled up by the
  
  occupier of such house or of any specified part thereof or by such manager or
  
  officer with such particulars as the State Government may direct regarding the
  
  inmates of such house or part thereof, or the persons employed under such
  
  manager or officer, as the case may be, at the time of the taking of the
  
  census.
  (2) When such schedule has been so left, the said occupier, manager or officer,
  
  as the case may be, shall it up or cause it to be filled up to the best of his
  
  knowledge or belief so far as regards the inmates of such house or part thereof
  
  or the persons employed under him. as the case may be, at the time aforesaid,
  
  and shall sign his name thereto and, when so required, shall deliver the
  
  schedule so filled up and signed to the census-officer or to such person as the
  
  census-officer may direct.