Official Languages Act, 1963
Bare Act · 1963
An Act to provide for the languages which may be used for the official purposes of the Union, for transaction of business in Parliament, for Central and State Acts and for certain purposes in High Courts.
- Act number
- 19 of 1963
- Enacted
- 10 May 1963
- Contents
- 9 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Continuance of English language for official purposes of the Union and for use in Parliament
- Section 4 – Committee on Official Language
- Section 5 – Authorised Hindi translations of Central Acts, etc
- Section 6 – Authorised Hindi translation of State Acts in certain cases (preview)
- Section 7 – Optional use of Hindi or other official language in judgments, etc., of High Courts (preview)
- Section 8 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 9 – Certain provisions not to apply to Jammu and Kashmir (preview)