AN ACT
DATED THE 29th OF FEBRUARY 1920
IN PURSUANCE OF § 129 OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER ESTABLISHING THE PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE RIGHTS WITHIN THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC.
§ 1.
The Czechoslovak language shall be the state, official language of the Republic (Art. 7 of the Treaty made between the leading Allied and Associated Powers and the Czechoslovak Republic and signed at St. Germain on Laye on the 10th September 1919).
It is thus in particular the language:
1. In which the work of all the courts, offices, institutions, undertakings and organs of the Republic shall be conducted, in which they shall issue their proclamations and notices as well as their inscriptions and designations. (Exceptions to this section are laid down in § 2 and § 5 as well as in § 6 relating to Russinia.)
2. In which the principal text on state and other banknotes shall be printed.
3. Which the armed forces of the country shall use for the purpose of command and as the language of the service; in dealings with men and companies not knowing this language their mother tongue may also be used.
Detailed regulations will be issued as to the duty of state officials and employees, as well as of officials and employees of state institutions and undertakings to know the Czechoslovak language.
§ 2.
In respect of national and language minorities (Chap. 1. Treaty of St. Germain) the following rules shall apply:
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