Act Info:
| THE HARYANA OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2004 |
| THE HARYANA OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2004 (Haryana Act No. 30 of 2004) An Act further to amend the Haryana Official Language Act, 1969. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Fifty- fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows :" 1. Short title. This Act may be called the Haryana Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2004. 2. Substitution of long title of Haryana Act 17 of 1969. For die existing long title of the Haryana Official Language Act, 1969 (hereinafter called the principal Act), the following long title shall be substituted, namely :" "to provide for the adoption of Hindi as the first language and Punjabi as the second language to be used for the official purposes of the State of Haryana.". 3. Amendment of section 2 of Haryana Act 17 of 1969. After clause (b) of section 2 of the principal Act, the following clause shall be inserted, namely :" "(bb) 'Punjab)' means Punjabi in Gurmukhi script;". 4. Substitution of section 3 of Haryana Act 17 of 1969. For section 3 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:" "3. Official language for official purposes of State." (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, Hindi shall, as from the appointed day, be the first language to be used for all official purposes of the State of Haryana except such purposes as the State Government may, by notification, specify and the language in use for such excepted purposes immediately before (lie appointed Jay may be used as official language for such purposes. (2) The State Government may, by notification, specify that Punjabi shall be the second language to be used for all such official purposes which tire State Government may deem fit.". |
| Haryana State Acts |