Use of Official Languages Act, 2012 (Act No. 12 of 2012)NoticesDepartment of Arts & Culture's Official Language Policy3. Purpose and regulatory context of this Policy |
| 3.1 | This Policy is required by section 4 of the Act, as follows: |
| 3.1.1 | section 4(1) provides that every national department, national public entity and national public enterprise must adopt a language policy on its use of official languages; and |
| 3.1.2 | section 4(2) provides that a language policy adopted in terms of subsection (1) must: |
| 3.1.2.1 | identify at least three official languages that the national department, national public entity or national public enterprise will use for government purposes, |
| 3.1.2.2 | stipulate how official languages will be used in effectively communicating with the public, official notices, government publications, and inter and intra-government communication, |
| 3.1.2.3 | describe how the national department, national public entity or national public enterprise will effectively communicate with members of the public whose language of choice is not one of its chosen official languages, or South African Sign Language, |
| 3.1.2.4 | describe how members of the public can access the language policy, and |
| 3.1.2.5 | provide a complaints mechanism to enable members of the public to lodge complaints regarding the use of official languages by a national department, national public entity or national public enterprise. |