Act Number: 37

Act Name: The Census Act, 1948

Year: 1948

Enactment Date: 1948-09-03

Long Title: An Act to provide for certain matters in connection with the taking of census.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

Section 15: Records of census not open to inspection of admissible in evidence.
    No person shall have a right to inspect any book, register or record made by a census-officer in the discharge of his duty as such, or any schedule delivered under section 10 and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), no entry in any such book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible as evidence in any civil proceeding whatsoever or in any criminal proceeding other than a prosecution under this Act or any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an offence under this Act.
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