Sri Lanka: Information since 1993 on whether the government or its agencies require that a birth certificate be translated from Tamil to English so that an individual can apply for other official documents (i.e. passport, teaching certificate, driver's licence, school certificates); on the circumstances under which an official document in Tamil must be translated into English or Sinhala; and on whether government departments are required to communicate or issue documents in Tamil if the document is to be used in a Tamil-speaking area (i.e. the North and East), 1 October 1997
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