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|  | South Africa EASTERN
CAPE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATION
OVERVIEWS
 
  
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|  |  Eastern Cape Use of Official
Languages Act 2015 [sic], No. 8 of 2016
 
Long title
 
 To provide for the regulation
and monitoring of the use of official languages for government purposes
in the Province; to provide for the establishment and functions of a
Provincial Language Unit; to provide for the establishment and
functions of language units by provincial departments, provincial
public entities and provincial public enterprises, and to require their
adoption of a language policy; to facilitate intergovernmental
co--ordination of language units in the Province; and to provide for
matters connected therewith.
 
 Table
of
contents
 
 
 
| SECTION | TITLE |  | 
 | PREAMBLE |  
| 
 | TABLE OF CONTENTS |  
| 1. | Definitions |  
| 2. | Objects of Act |  
| 3. | Application of Act |  
| 4. | Language policy |  
| 5. | Establishment of Central Provincial Language Unit |  
| 6. | Functions of Central Provincial Language Unit** 
 |  
| 7. | Establishment of language units in provincial departments,
provincial public entities and provincial government business
enterprises |  
| 8. | Functions of language units in provincial departments, provincial public entities and provincial public enterprises |  
| 9. | Monitoring of and  reporting on use of official languages |  
| 10. | Annual Report to Legislature |  
| 11. | Intergovernmental forum on use of official languages |  
| 12. | Exemptions from application of section 7 |  
| 13. | Regulations |  
| 14. | Short title and commencement |  
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