(3) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1) for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Act the English Language shall continue to be used, for all the official purposes of the State Government, at the level of the Secretariat and such other Offices as may be specified from time to time in the official gazette, for which it was being used immediately before such commencement:

[4] The act states the following: BE it enacted by the Legislature of Manipur in the Seventy- second Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1.

(2) It shall come into force with effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of Manipur.

In section 2 of the Manipur Official Language Act, 1979, for clause (f), the following shall be substituted, namely,- "Manipuri Language" means Meeteilon written in Meetei Mayek and spoken by the majority of Manipur population:

Provided that the concurrent use of Bengali Script and Meetei Mayek shall be allowed in addition to English language, for a period upto 10(ten) years from the date of commencement of this Act.".