Military, Naval and police officers and certain others, if required to act as enumerators

(1) Any military or naval officer, or any officer of the Bombay City Police, or any master or person in charge of a merchant vessel, or nacoda or tindal of a vessel or boat, or any person in charge of a lunatic asylum, hospital or prison or of any public or private charitable or scholastic institution, or any keeper or a hotel or lodging-house, shall if required, act as an enumerator for the purpose of taking account of persons under his command of charge or abiding in any building in his possession, charge or control, on the night immediately preceding the day to be appointed for the making of such enumeration.

1. (2) Every person so required to act as an enumerator shall receive and conform to all instructions in writing which may be issued to him by the Commissioner in that behalf.