Section 9. (1) Subject to such orders as the Local Government may issue in this behalf, any census-officer may leave, or Gause to be left,

Temporary 13. Notwithstanding anything in any enactment local enact. suspensionof or rule with respect to the mode in which a census is ments to be taken in any municipality, the municipal au- roles an to thority may, at the time appointed for the taking of Inode of taking cerlsns in the census of British India during the year 1921, munici~ali- ties. cause the census of the municipality to be taken wholly or in part by any method authorised by this Act, 14. Notxithstanding I: `14.` Notwithstanding anything in any enactment Power gard Power gard to in `cx-` re- or rule, in regard to municipal, local, union or village penses. funds, the Local Government may direct that the m~hole or any part of any expenses incurrcd for anyt,'r~ing done in accorclance with this Act mzly be charged to any municipal, local, union or village fund constituted fol*, and on behalf of, the area within which such expenses were incurred. 9. (1) Subject to such orders as the Local Government may issue in this behalf, any census-officer may leave, or Gause to be left, Ornopier or nlaliager to `fill` up schedale. - (a) at any dwelling-house within the local area for which he is appointed, or - (6) with any manager or officer of any commercial or industrial establighment who has at the time of the taking of the census not lees bhan ten persons.employed under him, a schedule for the purpose 01 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 Local Government may direct regarding the inmates of such house or part, or the persons employed under such manager or officer at the time of the taking of the census, as the case may be. (2) When - (d) 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, alters or - : injures before the 31st day of March, 1921, any letters, marks or numbers which which have been painted or aExed for thc purposes of the censlzs, `(j)` if any occupier of a dwelling-house or part thereof or any person with whom a schedule is left under section 9 knowingly and nithout sufficient cause fails to comply with the provisions of section 9 or malies ally false return under that section, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees. `11.` (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare before what classes O F Magistrates prosecutions under this Act may be instituted. Jurisdiction in prosecutions. (2) Unless and until a notification is published under sub-section (I), all proseoutions under this Act shall, in the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, be instituted before a Presidency Magistrate, and elsewhere, before tlie District Magistrate. (3) No prosecution under this Act shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the Local Government or of some officer authorised by the Local Government in this behalf. Recor& OF `12.` NO person shall have `a` right to inspect any census not book, register or record made by a census-officer i n o11en to inspection orad- the discharge of his duty as such officer or any sche- mis~ible in d'ule delivered under section 9, and, notwithstanding evidence in certain pro. auything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1 of 1872. cedings. 1872, no entry in any such book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible as evidence in any civil proceeding or any proceeding under Chapter XI1 or Chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. `V` of 1898. `V` of 1898.