evidence: Language of the Courts (Special Provisions) A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF TAMIL IN THE CASE OF CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS EXERCISING ORIGINAL JURISDICTION IN THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PROVINCES. WHEREAS subsection (1) of section 11 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka provides that the language of the courts and tribunals empowered by law to administer justice and of courts, tribunals and other institutions established under the Industrial Disputes Act and of Conciliation Boards established under the Conciliation Boards Act, No. 10 of 1958, shall be Sinhala throughout Sri Lanka and accordingly their records, including pleadings, proceedings, judgments, orders and records of all judicial and ministerial acts, shall be in Sinhala: And Whereas the proviso to that subsection enables the National State Assembly by or under its law to provide for the use of Tamil in the case of institutions exercising original jurisdiction in the Northern and Eastern Provinces and also of courts, tribunals and other institutions established under the Industrial Disputes Act and of Conciliation Boards established under the Conciliation Boards Act, No. 10 of 1958, in the Northern and Eastern Provinces: Now therefore be it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: – Short title. 1. This Law may be cited as the Language of the Courts (Special Provisions) Law, No. 14 of 1973.