Use of Punjabi in Courts and Tribunals

(1) In all civil courts and criminal courts, subordinate to the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, all revenue courts and rent tribunals, constituted by the State Government, work in such courts and tribunal shall be done in Punjabi. Explanation. - For the purpose of this section, the words ‘civil court’ and ‘criminal court’ shall have the same meaning as respectively, assigned to them in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. (2) The concerned Administrative Department of the State Government, shall make arrangements to provide necessary infrastructure and training to the concerned staff, in order to ensure the use of Punjabi in all courts and tribunals, referred to in sub-section (1), within a period of six months from the date of commencement of the Punjabi Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2008.