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Title.
Preamble.
Certain days to be public holidays.
Regulations.
Certain days to be bank holidays. Bills of exchange
ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1875.
Public Holidays.
No. 6 of 1875.
An Ordinance to provide for Public and Bank Holidays.
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:---
[7th July, 1875.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The several days mentioned in the schedule B to this Ordinance annexed, shall be bank holidays, and shall be kept as holiday in all banks in the Colony, and 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.
Protest falling to be made on bank holidays to be payable next day.
4. 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 noting or protest shall be as valid as if made on the previous day.
may be made on next day.
Acts relating to bills of exchange to be compellable to be done on bank holidays.
5. 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, 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 appoint special days
6. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by notification in the Government Gazette, at any time to appoint a special day to be observed as a