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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH JULY, 1875.
Title.
Preamble.
Certain days to be Public Holidays.
Regulations.
Certain days to be Bank
Holidays.
Bills of ex-
HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO NONO VICTORIA REGINE.
JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 6 OF 1875.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for Public and Bank Holidays.
[7th July, 1875.]
HEREAS it is expedient that certain days in the year
Whould be declared Public Holidays and Bank Holidays respectively: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. The several days mentioned in schedule A to this Ordinance annexed (hereinafter 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.
II. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make regulations excluding in whole or in part from the operation of this Ordinance any public office or any department 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 provisions of this Ordinance.
III. The several days mentioned in the schedule B to this Ordinance annexed, shall be Bank Holidays, and shall be kept as holidays in all banks in the Colony, and all bills of exchange, change falling promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments due and due on Bank payable on any such Bank Holiday, shall be payable on the next Holidays to be following day and not on such Bank Holiday.
payable next
day.
may be made
Protest falling IV. In case of non-acceptance or non-payment of any negoti to be made on able instrument, the same may be noted or protested on the next Bank Holidays following day after a Bank Holiday, and any such noting or on next day. protest shall be as valid as if made on the previous day. Acts relating V. No person shall be compellable to make any payment, to bills of ex- or to do any other act relating to a bill of exchange or other change not to negotiable instrument on a Public Holiday, or on a Bank Holiday, be compellable to be done on and the obligation to make such payment, or to do such other Bank Holidays, act, shall apply to the day next following such Public Holiday, or Bank Holiday, and the making of such payments, or doing such acts on such following day shall be equivalent to payment of the money, or performance of the act on the Public Holiday, or Bank Holiday.
Governor may
VI. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by Notification in appoint special the Government Gazette, at any time to appoint a special day to days to be observed as
be observed as a Public Holiday, or as a Bank Holiday, in Public addition to or in substitution for any of the days mentioned in Holidays. the schedules to this Ordinance annexed, and thereupon the pro- visions of this Ordinance shall be applicable to such day in the same manner as if the said day had been mentioned in schedule A or schedule B to this Ordinance annexed.
Interpretation clause.
Short title.
VII. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the day next follow- ing a Public Holiday shall mean the next following day not being itself a Public Holiday and the day next following a Bank Holiday shall be construed to mean the next following day not being itself a Public or a Bank Holiday.
VIII. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Holidays Ordinance, 1875."
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 7th Day of July, 1875.
II. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE A,
The first day of January.
Good Friday.
The Birthday of Her Majesty, or the day on which Her Majesty's Birthday
is ordered to be kept.
Christmas Day.
The 26th day of December.
If any of these days fall on a Sunday, the next following Monday shall be a Pu- blic Holiday.
Chinese New Year's Day.
SCHEDULE B.
The first Monday in August. Easter Monday.
Whit-Monday.