Section 10. In any of the following cases, namely :- (a) if a census-officer or a person appointed to be a censu

10. In any of the following cases, namely :- (a) if a census-officer or a person appointed to be a census-'officer or a person lawfully required to give assistance towards the taking of a census refuses or neglects to use reasonable diligence in performing any duty imposed upon him or in o k y - ing any order issued to him in accordance wi,Vh this Act, or with any rule duly made thereunder, Penalties. - (b) if a census-officer intentionally puts any offensive or improper question or knowingly makes any false return, - (c) if any person refuses to answer to the best of his knowledge or belief any question asked of him by a census-officer which he is legally bound by section 7 so to answer, - (6) if any person occupying any house, enclosure, vessel or other place refuses to allow a census-officer such reasonable access thereto as he is required by section 8 to allow, - (e) if any person removes, obliterates, alteas or injures before the thirty-first day of March 1911, any letters, marks or numbers which have been painted or affixed for the purposes of the census, - - - (f) if any occupier of a dwelling-house or part thereof or any person with whom a schedule is left under section 9 knowingly and without sufficient cause fails to comply with the provisions of section 9 'or makes any false return under that section, he shall be punishable with fine which maysextend to fifty rupees. 11- ( I ) The Local Government may, by notifica- Jurisdiction tion in the official Gazette, declare before whatti,,, in proeecu- classes of Magistrates prosecutions unaer this Act - may be instituted. (8) Unless (2) Unless and until a notification is published under sub-section (I), all prgsecutions under this Act shall, in the towns sf Calcutta, EIadra<s and Bombay, be inst,ituted before a Presidency Magistrate, and elsewhere before the District Magistrate. (3) No prosecution under this Act shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the Local Government, or with the previous sanction of some offiaer authorised by ,the Local Government in this behalf. Records of `12.` No person shall have a right to inspect say ' c-,nsus not open `to` in-[book, register or record made by a census-officer in ] spection or the discharge of his duty as such officer or any sche-. evidence admissible in in dule delivered under section 9, and, notwithstanding oertrtin pro- anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence I of 1872. oeedings. Act, 1872, no entry in any such book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible as evidence i n any civil proceeding or any proceeding under Chapter XI1 or Chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. v of of 1898. v of of 1898. Temporary `13.` Notwithstanding anything in any enactment suspension of local enact-[or rule with respect to the mode in which a census ] ments and ,is to be taken in any municipality, the municipal gdTeaosfto[authority may, at tlie t h e appointed for the taking ] takingcdasus of the census of British India during the year 1911, in ,,,iti,. munioicause the census of the municipalRy to" be talcen wholly or in part by any method authorised by this Act. 14. Notwithstanding anything in any enactment or rule, in regard to municipal, local or vdlage funds, the Local Government may direct that the whole or any part of any expenses incurred for anything done in accordance with this Act, may be charged to any municipal, local or village fund constituted for, and on behalf of, the area within-which such expenses were incurred. Power in regard to expenses. 15. (1) The Governor General in Council may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Power `eo` make aslo. J `,151` C ~ $ U S . `(2)` I n particular, and without prejudice to the enerdity of fhe foregoing power, the Governor kenera1 in Council may make rules providing- - (a) for the appointment of census-officers and of persons to perform any of the duties of census-officers or `tb` give assistance towards the taking of a censu's and for the general instructions to be issued to such officers and persons; , - ( b ) for the enumeration of persons employed on railways and their families and of other classes of the population for whom it may be necessary or expedient to make special provision ; - (el for the enumeration of persons travelling on the night when a census is taken. (3) The Governor General in Council may, by general or special order, direct that all or any of the owers conferred upon him by this sect?on rnay also ge exercised by any Local Government w ~ t h respect to the territories aclrniniskred by it.