1 [Subjectto the provisions of Section 15], the Census Commissioner or any Director ofCensus Operations may. If he so thinks fit, at the request and cost (to bedetermined by him) of any local authority or person, cause abstracts to beprepared and supplied containing any such statistical information as can bederived from the census returns for lndia or any State, as the case may be,being information which is not contained in any published report and which inhis opinion it is reasonable for that authority or person to require.
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1.Substituted for "The CensusCommissioner or any Director of Census Operations or such person as the StateGovernment may authorise in this behalf" by The Census (Amendment) Act,1993, (Act 11 of 1994) w.e.f 14.01.1994.