The Constitution of India
Language to be used in Parliament
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Provision
- 120
- Source language
- eng+tel
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official sourcesubject to the provisions of article 348, business in Parliament shall be transacted in Hindi or
in English:
Provided that the Chairman of the Council of States or Speaker of the House of the
People, or person acting as such, as the case may be, may permit any member who cannot
adequately express himself in Hindi or in English to address the House in his mother-tongue.
(2) Unless Parliament by law otherwise provides, this article shall, after the expiration
of a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Constitution, have effect as if the
words “or in English” were omitted therefrom.
58 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part V. — The Union)
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