Section 12. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, no entry in any book, reg

12. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, no entry in any book, register or record made by a census-officer in the discharge of his duty as such officer, and no entry in a schedule delivered under section 9, shall be admissible as evidence in any civil proceeding or any proceeding under Chapter XII or Chapter XXXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882. X of 188 Temporary suspension of local enactments and, rules as to mode of taking census in municipalities.