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^[1][TAMIL NADU] ACT No. XXXIX Of 1956.^[2]

[The ^[1](Tamil Nadu) Official Language Act, 1956.]

(Received the assent of the Governor on the 19th January 1957, first published in the Fort St. George Gazette on the 23rd January 1957.)

An Act to provide for the adoption of Tamil as the language to be used for the official purposes of the ^[3][State of Tamil Nadu].

Whereas the Constitution enables the Legislature of a State by law to adopt any one or more of the languages in use in the State as the language to be used for all or any of the official purposes of the State and to prescribe any language other than the English language for use in Bills, Acts, Ordinances, Orders, Rules, regulations and bye-laws.

Be it enacted in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Short title and extent

1. (1) This Act may be called the ^[1][Tamil Nadu] Official Language Act, 1956.

(2) It extends to the whole of the ^[3][State of Tamil Nadu].

Tamil to be the official language of the state

2. The official language of the ^[3][State of Tamil Nadu] shall be Tamil.

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1. These words were substituted for the word “ Madras ” by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1969, as amended by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws (Second Amendment) Order 1969
2. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see For St. George Gazette Part IV-A, Extraordinary, dates on the 21st December 1956, pages 280-281
   
   This Act was extended to the added territories by section 3 of, and the first Schedule to the Tamil Nadu (Added territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1962 (Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1962), repealing the corresponding law in force in those territories.
3. This expression was substituted for the expression “ State of Madras ” by the Tamil Nadu Adaptions of Law Order, 1969, as amended by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation Law (Second Amendment) Order, 1969