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(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 [State of Tamil Nadu].

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:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the [Tamil Nadu] Official Language Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of the [State of Tamil Nadu].

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