HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE

HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 149.

HOLIDAYS.

To consolidate and amend the law relating to general and school
holidays.

[10th January, 1947.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Holidays

Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-

'general holiday' 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 ;

'school holiday' means a day which shall be kept as a holiday by all
Government schools, military schools and schools registered
under the Education Ordinance, 1913.

3. The following days shall be general holidays(a) every
Sunday;

(b) the first week-day of January;

(c)Chinese New Year's Day, or if that day should be a Sunday
then the following day;

(d)the first week-day following Chinese New Year's Day, or if
Chinese New Year's Day should be a Sunday then Tuesday
following Chinese New Year's Day;

(e) Good Friday;

(f) the day following Good Friday;
(g) Easter Monday;

(h)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 day is to be kept on
some other day, and then, such other day;

(i) Whit Monday;
(j) the first week-day in july;
(k) the first Monday in August;

(l)the 30th day of August, or if that day should be a Sunday
then the following day;





(m)Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Day, or if that day
should be a Sunday then the following day;

(n) the second Monday in October;

(o) the day following Remembrance Sunday;

Christmas Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then
the following day;

(q)the 26th day of December, or if that day should be a
Sunday then the following day, or if Christmas Day
should be a Sunday then the Tuesday following
Christmas Day.

4. There shall be a School holiday on 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 Governor may make regulations excluding in whole
or in part from the operation of section 3 any public office or
Government department.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills
of Exchange Ordinance, it shall not be necessary for any
person to make any payment or to do any other act,
including noting or protesting, relating to any negotiable
instrument on a general holiday, but all obligation, to make
such payment or to do any such other act shall apply to
the next following day not being itself a general holiday.

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 holiday in addition to or in substitution for any day
mentioned in section 3 either in any particular year or annually
thereafter and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall
apply to such added or substituted day in such year or annually
as the case may be and shall cease to apply to any day for
which another has been so substituted.

8. Subject to the provisions of Order II, rule 27, 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 general holiday or not.
1 of 1947. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. (26 of 1913.) General holidays. [s. 3 cont.] G.N.A. 185/50. School holiday. Regulations may exclude public offices, etc. Acts relating to negotiable instruments not compellable to be done on a general holiday. (Cap. 19.) Power of the Governor in Council to appoint holidays. 9 of 1950, schedule. Process, etc., on holidays. (Cap. 4, rules.)

1 of 1947. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. (26 of 1913.) General holidays. [s. 3 cont.] G.N.A. 185/50. School holiday. Regulations may exclude public offices, etc. Acts relating to negotiable instruments not compellable to be done on a general holiday. (Cap. 19.) Power of the Governor in Council to appoint holidays. 9 of 1950, schedule. Process, etc., on holidays. (Cap. 4, rules.)

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