Uttarakhand Language Institutions Act, 2018
No: 16 Dated: Apr, 12 2018
UTTARAKHAND LANGUAGE INSTITUTIONS ACT, 2018
(Uttarakhand Act No. 16 of 2018)
An Act to establish the Uttarakhand Language Institution and to provide the Academies and the connected and incidental matters thereof;
CHAPTER-1
Preliminary
1. Short title, Extent and Commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Uttarakhand Language Institutions Act , 2018.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of Uttarakhand.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
(a) "Institution" means the Uttarakhand Language Institution constituted under section 3 of the Act;
(b) "Notification" means the Notification published in the Gazette of Uttarakhand Government ;
(c) "General body" means the General body of the Institution;
(d) "Committee" means the Managing Executive Committee of the Language Institution;
(e) "Government" means the State Government of Uttarakhand;
(f) "Prescribed" means the prescribed rules and procedures under the Act;
(g) "Academy" means the Uttarakhand Hindi Academy, Uttarakhand Urdu Academy, Uttarakhand Punjabi Academy and Uttarakhand Regional Language and Boli (dialect)Academy.
(h) "State" means the State of Uttarakhand;
(i) "Non-official member" means such person who is representative of any organization/institution but not Government Member;
(j) "Chairman, Executive Chairman and Vice-chairman" means the Chairman, Executive Chairman and Vice-chairman of the Uttarakhand Language Institution;
(k) "Director" means the Director of the Language Institution;
(l) "Deputy Director" means the Deputy Director of the Uttarakhand Hindi Academy, Uttarakhand Urdu Academy, Uttarakhand Punjabi Academy and Uttarakhand Regional Language and Boli (dialect) Academy;
(m) "Member" means the members of the General body and Managing Executive Committee;
(n) "Year" means the financial year;
CHAPTER-II
Establishment of the Uttarakhand Language Institution
3. Establishment of the Language Institution. - The State Government, as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, shall constitute a Language Institution for the fulfillment of the purposes of this Act, which shall be known as the Uttarakhand Language Institution, whose head-quarter shall be in Dehradun.