ORDINANCES Nos. 6 AND 7 OF 1875.
Public Holidays.
St. Paul's College.
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to be observed as public
public holiday, or as a bank holiday, in addition to or in substitution for any of the days mentioned in the schedules to this Ordinance annexed, holidays. and thereupon the provisions 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.
Interpreta-tion clause.
7. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the day next following 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.
8. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Holidays Ordinance, 1875."
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 public holiday.
Chinese New Year's Day.
The first Monday in August.
Easter Monday.
Whit-Monday.
SCHEDULE B.
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No. 7 of 1875.
An Ordinance to provide for the Devolution of the Site of St. Paul's College, and to provide means for altering the Statutes of the said College.
[7th July, 1875.]
WHEREAS, by Letters Patent dated the 11th day of May, 1849, Her Majesty did declare the city of Victoria, and all the territory comprised within the island of Hongkong and its dependencies, to be the Diocese of the Bishop named in the said Letters Patent, and of his successors.
Preamble.