Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
11. ( I ) The Local Qoverilment may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare before what classes of Magistrates prosecutions u d e r this Act may 130 iustituted.
(2) Unless aud until a notificatioll is ~~u1)lislieci under sub-section ( I ) , all prosccutioas uncler this Act sf all, In the to\vus of Calcr~tta, 3laclrns ancl Bombay, be iastvitnted before a Presiclency l!iagistrat2c, and else~vliers bcf ore t,hc District ll agistrate.
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(3) No prosecution under this Act shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the Local Government,, 01. with the previous sanction of some vlliuer authuriswl by tl~e Luual Quverulveut in this behalf.
12. ATo person allall have a right to inspect any Reoords of book, register or record made by a census-officer `Z;'';;:` in the dfscharge of his duty as such officer or any epection or schedule delivered under section 9;and notwithstand- admissible i n evidence in ing anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence proAct, 1872, no entry in any such book, register, record oeediogs. or schedule sball be admissible as evidence in any civil proceeding or any proceeding under Chapter X I 1 or Chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.
Source: India Code