Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C

Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Regulations 1966

[see also Enactment of Sinhala Only Law]

Notification in the Ceylon Government Gazette, 3 February 1966

Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act, No. 28 of 1958

REGULATIONS made by the Minister of Justice under sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act, No. 28 of 1958, and approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

A.F.Wijemanne,
Minister of Justice

Colombo, February 3, 1966

Regulations

1. These regulations may be cited as the Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Regulations 1966.

2. Without prejudice to the operation of the Official Language Act, No.33 of 1956, which declared the Sinhala language to be the one official language of Ceylon, the Tamil language shall also be used -

(a) in the Northern and Eastern Provinces for the transaction of all Government and public business and the maintenance of public records, whether such business is conducted in or by a department or institution of tthe Government, a public corporation or a statutory institution; and

(b) for all correspondence between persons, other than officials in their official capacity, educated through the medium of the Tamil language and any official in his official capacity or between any local authority in the Northern and Eastern provinces which conducts its business in the Tamil language and any official in his official capacity.

3. For the purpose of giving full force and effect to the principles and provisions of the Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act, No. 28 of 1958, and these regulations, all Ordinances and Acts, and all Orders, Proclamations, rules, bye-laws, regulations and notifications, made or issued under any written law, the Government Gazette, and all other official publications, circulars and forms issued or used by the Government, public corporations or statutory institutions, shall be translated and published in the Tamil language also.