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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 8, 1912.
Public Holi- lays.
Power to
make regula
Lions restrict- ing the observance of General and Public Holidays by public offices and Govern- ment Depart- ments.
(12.) The twenty-sixth day of December, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day, unless Christmas Day fall on a Sunday then the Tuesday following Christmas Day. (13.) The Birthday of His Majesty the King unless it shall be ordered by the Governor, by an Order published in the Gazette, that His Ma- jesty'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 that day should be a Sunday then the follow- 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.
Acts relating 6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills of to negotiable Exchange Ordinance, 1885, as amended by this Ordinance it instruments shall not be necessary for any person to make any payment not compell- able to or to do any other act, including noting or protesting, relat- ing 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.
be done
on a general holiday.
Power of the Governor to appoint holidays.
Repeals and Amend-
inen s.
7. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council by no- tification 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 another has been so substituted.
8. (1.) The Public Holidays Ordinance, 1870, (as amended by the Executive Council Relief of Duties Ordin- ance, 1910), and the Victoria Day Ordinance, 1903, are hereby repealed.
(2.) The Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, is hereby amended as follows:-
(a.) in section 2 thereof by the insertion after the definition of "Delivery" of the words " 'General Holiday' has the same meaning as in the Holi- days Ordinance, 1912".
(b.) in sub-section (2) of section 13 thereof by the addition after the word "Sunday" of the words "or any other general holiday".
(c.) by the deletion of the provisoes (a) and (b) to section 14 thereof and by the substitution there- for of the words :--
Provided that when the last day of grace is a general holiday other than Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday, or when the last day of grace and also the second day of grace are gen- eral holidays the bill is due and payable on the succeeding business day and provided also that when the last day of grace falls on a Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday which is not immediately preceded by another General Holi- day the bill is due and payable on the preceding business day.
(d) in sub-section (4) of section 51 by the insertion after the word Ordinance" of the words "and of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912". (e.) in sub-section (2) of section 92 thereof by the deletion of the words "Sundays and public holi- days and bank holidays within the meaning of these terms as used in the Holidays Ordinance, 1875," and by the substitution therefor of the words "general holidays”.
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