Section 17 of the Census Act, 1948 – Grant of statistical abstracts

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Section 17: Grant of statistical abstracts

Subject to the provisions of section 15, the Census Commissioner or any Director of Census Operations may, If he so thinks fit, at the request and cost (to be determined by him) of any local authority or person, cause abstracts to be prepared and supplied containing any such statistical information as can be derived from the census returns for India or any State, as the case may be, being information which is not contained in any published report and which in his opinion it is reasonable for that authority or person to require.

Amendment notes (numbers in square brackets in the text above):

  1. 2. Subs. by Act 11 of 1994, s. 13, for certain words.
  2. 3. Subs by the A. O. 1950, for “the provinces of India or the Province”.

Source: official text of The Census Act, 1948 as published on India Code (PDF). All sections of the Census Act, 1948.

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