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(9) Whit Monday;

(10) the first week-day in July;

(11) the first Monday in August;

(12) the 30th day of August, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day;

(13) Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Day, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day;

(14) the tenth day of October, or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day;

(16) the day following Remembrance Sunday; (16) Christmas Day; or if that day should be a Sunday then the following day;

(17) the twenty-sixth 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.

School

4. The following day shall be a School holiday! Empire Day, that is to say, the 24th day of May, or if

Holiday,

that day should be a Sunday then the following day.

5. The Governor may make regulations excluding in Regulations whole or in part from the operation of section 3 any public melua office or Government department.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, 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, hut all obligation to make such payment or to do any such other set 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 and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to such added or substituted day and shall cease to apply to any day for which another has been so substituted,

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Ordinance

1901.

8. Subject to the provisions of section 32 of the Code Presas, ale..., of Civil Procedure relating to certaiù civil procedure, any on holidays. summons or warrant may be issued, any summons may be No 3 of 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.

The Holidays Ordinance, 1912, and the Holidays Repeal of Amendment Ordinance, 1941, are hereby repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 9th day of January, 1947.

Ordinances

No. 5 of

1912 at

No. 1 of

1041.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.