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A BILL
Short title.
Definitions.
General Holidays.
Public Holi- (lays.
Power to
make regula
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to make provision for the due observance of General, Public and Bank Holi- days and to amend and consolidate the law relating to the same.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council there- of, as follows :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Holidays Ordin- ance, 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 establishments. public offices and Government departments. "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.
3. The following days shall be general holidays :-
(1.) Every Sunday.
(2.) The 1st day of January, or if that day should
be a Sunday then the following day.
(3.) Chinese New Year's Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day. Provided that if the Chinese hereafter adopt the Grego- rian Calendar then the first two week days 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
9th day of November.
(11.) Christmas Day or if that day should be a
Sunday then the following day.
(12.) The 26th day of December, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day, unless Christmas Day fall 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 tions restrict public office or Government department.
ing the
observance
of General
and Public
Holidays by public offices and Govern-
ment Depart- ments.
able to
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- 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.