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G.N.A. 185/50.
School holiday.
Regulations may exclude public offices, etc.
Acts relating to negotiable instruments not compellable to be done on a general holiday,
(Cap. 19.)
Power of the Governor in Council to appoint holidays.
9 of 1950, Schedule.
Process, etc., on holidays.
(Cap. 4, rules)
Holidays.
(m) Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day;
(n) the second Monday in October;
(o) the day following Remembrance Sunday;
(p) Christmas Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day;
(q) the 26th day of December, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day, or if Christmas Day should be a Sunday then the Tuesday following Christmas Day.
4. There shall be a School holiday on Empire Day, that is to say, the 24th day of May, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day.
5. The Governor may make regulations excluding in whole or in part from the operation of section 3 any public office or Government department.
6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, it shall not be necessary for any person to make any payment or to do any other act, including noting or protesting, relating 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.
7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to appoint any day to be observed as a general holiday in addition to or in substitution for any day mentioned in section 3 either in any particular year or annually thereafter and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to such added or substituted day in such year or annually as the case may be and shall cease to apply to any day for which another has been so substituted.
8. Subject to the provisions of Order II, rule 27, of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to certain civil procedure, any summons or warrant may be issued, any summons may be served, any warrant or order may be served or executed, and any arrest, search or seizure may be made, on any day, whether a general holiday or not.
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