PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE, 1875

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE, 1875

ORDINANCE NO.2 OF 1875

Public Holidays Ordinance, 1875.

AN ORDINANCE to provide for Public and Bank Holidays.
[7th July, 1875]
WHEREAS it is expedient that certain days in the year should be
declared public holidays and bank holidays respectively;
BE it therefore enacted by the governor of hongkong, with the advice
of the legislative council thereof, as follows:-
1. This ordinacne may be cited as the Public Holidays Ordinance,
1875.
2. The several days mentioned in the first schedule to this ordinance
(herinafter referred to as public holidays) shall, in addition to sundays,
be dies non, and shall be kept (except as hereinafter provided as holidays
in this colony.
3. The governor-in-council may from time to time make regulations
exluding in whole or in part from the operation of this ordinance any
public office or any departemtn thereof, and thereupon all acts and
things relating to such public office or department thereof may be done
and performed on any public holiday, notwithstanding the provisons of
this Ordiance.
4. The several days mentioned in the second schedule to this ordinance
shall be bank holidays, and shall be kept as holidays in all banks
in the colony.
5. All bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments
due and payable on any such bank holiday shall be payable on
the next following day and not on such bank holiday.
6. In case of non-acceptance or non-payment of any negotiable instrument, the
same may be noted or protested on the next following day
after a bank holiday, and any such nothing or protest shall be as valid as
if made on the previous day.
7. No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any
other act relating to a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument
on a public holiday or on a bank holiday, and the obligation to make such
payment or to do such other act such apply to the day next following
such public holiday or bank holiday, and the making of such payment
or the doing of such other act on such following day shall be


equivalent to payment of the money or performance of the act one the
public holiday or bank holiday.
8. It shall be lawful for the governor, by notification in the gazette,
at any time to appoint a special day to be observed as a public holiday
or as a bank holiday, in addition to or in subsitution for any of the
days mentioned in the schedules to this ordinance, and thereupon the
provisions of this ordinance shall be applicable to such day in the same
manner as if the said day had been mentioned in the first or second
schedule to this ordinance.
9. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the day next following a
public holiday means the next following day not being itself a public
holiday, and the day next following a bank holiday means the next
following day not being itself a public or a bank holiday.
SCHEDULES
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
TABLE OF PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
1 the 1st day of Juanuary
2 good friday
3 the birthday of her majesty, or the day on which her majesty's birthday is ordered to be kept
4 Christmas day
5 the 26th day of December
N.B.-If any of these days falls on a sunday, the next following monday
shall be a publcie holiday.
THE SECOND SCHEDULE.
TABLE OF BANK HOLIDAYS
1 chinese new year's day
2 the first monday in August
3 easter monday
4 whitmonday

A.D. 1875. Ordinance No. 6 of 1875.
Short title.
Certain days to be public holidays. First Schedule.
Power to make regulations restricting public holidays.
Certain days to be bank holidays. Second Schedule.
Payment of negotiable instrument falling due on bank holiday. Making of protest falling to be made on bank holiday.
Act relating to negotiable instrument not compellable to be done on holiday. Power to Governor to appoint special day as public or bank holiday. Explanation as to day next following holiday.
Section 2.
Section 4.

A.D. 1875. Ordinance No. 6 of 1875.
Short title.
Certain days to be public holidays. First Schedule.
Power to make regulations restricting public holidays.
Certain days to be bank holidays. Second Schedule.
Payment of negotiable instrument falling due on bank holiday. Making of protest falling to be made on bank holiday.
Act relating to negotiable instrument not compellable to be done on holiday. Power to Governor to appoint special day as public or bank holiday. Explanation as to day next following holiday.
Section 2.
Section 4.

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