HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE, 1912

HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE, 1912

No. 5 of 1912.

An Ordinane to make provision for the due observance of
general and public holidays and to amende and con-
solidate the law relating to the same.
[8th March 1912.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Holidays Ordinance,
1912.

2. In this Ordinance,
(a) General holdiday means a day which (subject to the
provisions of section 5) shall be a dies non and which shall be
kept as a holiday by all banks, educational establishments,
public offices and Government departments.

(b) Public holiday means a day which (subject to the
provisions of section 5) shall be kept as a holiday by all
educational establishments, public offices and Government
deapartments.

* As amended by No. 26 of 1921 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.



3. The following days shall be general holidays:-
(1) Every Sunday.
(2) The first week-day of January.
(3) Chinese New Year's Day, or if that day should be a
Sunday then the following day.
(4) The first week-day following Chinese New Year's Day,
or if Chinese New Year's Day should be a Sunday then the
Tuesday following Chinese New Year's Day.
(5) Good Friday.
(6) The day following Good Friday.
(7) Easter Monday.
(8) The Birthday of His Majesty the King, unless it shall
be ordered by the Governor, by an order published in the
Gazette, that His Majesty's Birthday is to be kept on some
other day, and then, such other day.
(9) Whit Monday.
(10) The first week-day in July.
(11) The first Monday in August.
(12) The second Monday in October.
(13) Armistice Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then
the following day.
(14) Christmas Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then
the following day.

(15) The twenty-sixth day of December, or if that day should
be a Sunday then the following day, or if Christwas Day
should be a Sunday then the Tuesday following Chrimstmas Day.

4. The following day shall be a public holiday:
Empire Day, that is to say, the 24th day of May, or if that
day should be a Sunday then the following day.

5. the gvernor may make regulations excluding in
whole or in pat from the operation of sections 3 and 4 any
public office or Government department.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills of
Exchange Ordinancce, 1885, it shall not be necessary for any
person to make any payment or to do any other act, including
nothing or protesting, relating to any negotiable instrument
on a general holiday, but all obligation to make such pay-
ment or to do any such other act shall apply to the next
following day not being itself a gneal holiday.

* As amended by No. 29 of 1923.

















As aniended by No. 29 of 1923,


7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by
notification in the Gazette to appoint any day to be observed
as a general or as public holiday in addition to or in sub-
stitution for any day mentioned in section 3 or in section 4
and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply
to such added or substituted day and shall cease to apply to
any day for which another has been so substituted.

8. Subject to the provisions of section 32 of the Code of
Civil Procedure relating to certain civil procedure, any
summons or warrant may be issued, any summons may be
served, any warrant or order may be served or executed, and
any arrest, search or seizure may be made, on any day,
whether a gneral or public holiday or not.
[Originally No. 5 of 1912. No. 29 of 1923. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. General holidays. Public holiday. Regulations may exclude public offices, etc. Acts relating to negotiable instruments not compellable to be done on a general holiday. Ordinance No. 3 of 1885. Power of the Governor in Council to appoint holidays. Process, etc. on holidays. Ordinance No. 3 of 1901. [Originally No. 11 of 1912. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Prohibitiion of importatioin and circulation of foreign copper and bronze coins.

[Originally No. 5 of 1912. No. 29 of 1923. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. General holidays. Public holiday. Regulations may exclude public offices, etc. Acts relating to negotiable instruments not compellable to be done on a general holiday. Ordinance No. 3 of 1885. Power of the Governor in Council to appoint holidays. Process, etc. on holidays. Ordinance No. 3 of 1901. [Originally No. 11 of 1912. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Prohibitiion of importatioin and circulation of foreign copper and bronze coins.

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