The Bihar Official Language Act, 1950
Preamble
[Bihar Act XXXIX of 1950] THE BIHAR OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT, 1950 (This Act received the assent of the Governor on the 13th November 1950 and the assent was first published is the Bihar Gazette of the 29th November 1950.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF HINDI IN DEVANAGARI SCRIPT AS THE LANGUAGE TO BE USED FOR THE OFFICIAL PURPOSES OF THE STATE OF BIHAR. Whereas it is expedient to provide for the adoption of Hindi in Devanagari script as the language to be used for official purposes of the State of Bihar; It is hereby enacted as follows :-- e
The Act
The numbering on the scan does not hold together, so the text is shown whole rather than split into sections. Splitting it wrongly would file one section's words under another's number.
[Bihar Act XXXIX of 1950] THE BIHAR OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT, 1950 (This Act received the assent of the Governor on the 13th November 1950 and the assent was first published is the Bihar Gazette of the 29th November 1950.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF HINDI IN DEVANAGARI SCRIPT AS THE LANGUAGE TO BE USED FOR THE OFFICIAL PURPOSES OF THE STATE OF BIHAR. Whereas it is expedient to provide for the adoption of Hindi in Devanagari script as the language to be used for official purposes of the State of Bihar; It is hereby enacted as follows :-- e 1. Short title, extent and commencement. --- (1) This Act may be called the Bihar Official Language Act, 1950. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Bihar. (3) It shall come intoforoe on such date is the State Government may by notification appoint for different parts of the State.
Provided that the date or dates appointed by the State Government under this subsection in respect of any of parts of the State shall not be later than seven years from the date on which this Act with the assent thereto of the competent authority is first published in the official Gazette. 2. Official language. --- Subject to the provisions of Articles 346, 347 and 348 of the Constitution of India, the language to be used for the official purposes of the State shall be Hindi in Devanagari script.
Provenance. Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, and shown whole: the section numbering on the scan does not hold together (fewer than 3 sections), and a wrong split would file one section's words under another section's number. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/57ea654b-c5c2-484d-9c58-ca49726564d8.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/5bdf6b89-0ed2-4111-b8f0-9e801d35aac7/content).
Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Every one of the 0 sections of this Act has its own page. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.