Sections
Section 1 — Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be called the Census Act, 1948. (2) It extends to the whole of India [Omitted ].
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- 1.Short title and extent.
- 2.Definitions.
- 2A.[Omitted].
- 3.Central Government to take census.
- 4.Appointment of census staff.
- 4A.Staff of every local authority to be made available for taking census.
- 5.Status of census authorities as public servants.
- 6.Discharge of duties of census-officers in certain cases.
- 7.Power to call upon certain persons to give assistance.
- 7A.Requisitioning premises, of vehicles, etc., for taking of a census.
- 7B.Payment of compensation.
- 7C.Power to obtain information.
- 7D.Power of entry into and inspection of premises, etc.
- 7E.Eviction from requisitioned premises.
- 7F.Release of premises from requisition.
- 7G.Delegation of functions of the Central Government with regard to requisitioning.
- 7H.Penalty for contravention of any order regarding requisitioning.
- 8.Asking of questions and obligation to answer.
- 9.Occupier to permit access and affixing of numbers.
- 10.Occupier or manager to fill up schedule.
- 11.Penalties.
- 12.Sanction required for prosecutions.
- 13.Operation of other laws not barred.
- 13A.Certain offences to be cognizable and triable summarily.
- 14.Jurisdiction.
- 15.Records of census not open to inspection of admissible in evidence.
- 15A.Protection of service interests of members of census staff.
- 15B.Protection of action taken in good faith.
- 16.Temporary suspension of other laws as to mode of taking census in municipalities.
- 17.Grant of statistical abstracts.
- 17A.Power to extend the provisions of Act to other operations.
- 18.Power to make rules.