HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE, 1912

HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE, 1912

No. 5 of 1912.
To make provision for the due observatice of General, Public and
Bank Holidays and to awend and consolidate the law
relating to the same. [8th March, 1912.]

1. The Holidays Ordinance, 1912.

2. In this Ordinance

Public Holiday---means a day which (subject to the provisions
of section 5) shall be kept as a holiday by all educational establish-
ments, public offices and Government departments.

General Holiday ' means a day which (subject to the provi-
sions of section 5) shall be a dics non and which shall be kept as a
holiday by all banks, educational establishments, public offices and
Government departments.

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. Provided that iff the Chinese hereafter
adopt the Gregorian Calendar then the second week-day in January.

(4) Good Friday. .

(5) The day following Good Friday.

(6) Easter Monday.

(7) Whit Monday.

(8) The first Monday in August.

(9) The second Monday in October.

(10) The Monday which falls on or nearest to the ninth day of
November.

(11) Christmas Day or if that day should. be a Sunday then the
following day.

(12) The twenty-sixth day of December, or if that day should
be a Sunday then the following day, unless Christruas Day fall on
a Sunday then the Tuesday following Chritmas Day.

(13) The Birthday of His Majesty the Ring 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.

4. The following day shall be a public holiday :-

Empire Day, that is to say, the 24th day of May or if tbat 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 sections 3 and 4 any public office or
Government department.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills of Exchange
Ordinance, 1885, it shall not be necessary for any person to make
any payment or to do any otber 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 or
as a public holiday in addition to or in substitution 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 aflother has been so
substituted.
[s. 8, rep. No. 43 of 1912.]

Short title. Definitions. General Holidays. Public Holiday. Regulations may exclude public offices, etc. Acts relating to negotiable instruments not comparable to be done on a general holiday. Power of the Governor-in-Council to appoint holidays.

Short title. Definitions. General Holidays. Public Holiday. Regulations may exclude public offices, etc. Acts relating to negotiable instruments not comparable to be done on a general holiday. Power of the Governor-in-Council to appoint holidays.

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