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(A) the Chinese Winter Solstice Festival (* # or Christmas Day, at the option of the employers and

(i) the first day of January.";

(b) in subsection (4) by inserting after the words "substituted boli-

day" where they twice appear the following-

"or a holiday under subsection (5) or (8)"'; and

(c) by inserting after subsection (4) the following new subsections- "(5) In addition to the holidays granted by subsection (1) an employee shall each year be granted a holiday by his employer on a day to be fixed by the employer not being a statutory holiday, an alternative holiday or a sub- stituted holiday.

Adsorbent of Section 40,

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(6) A day fixed as a holiday under subsection (5) shall be notified by an employer to each of his employees by notice posted in a conspicuous place in the place of employ- ment dot later than the end of the year next proceding the year in which the holiday under subsection (5) is gmated.

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(7) An employer shall cause any notice posted under subsection (6) to remain so posted until the end of the year! next following the year in which it was posted.

(8) If an employer does not fix a day to be a holiday under subsection (3) or notify a day so fixed in the muoner required by subsection (6) every employee shall be granted a holiday on the Arst weekday in July or on the first Monday in August, at the option of the employer.".

Section 40 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(4) by inserting after the words "statutory holiday" where they first

appear the following-

"or a holiday under section 39(5) or (8); and

(6) by inserting after the words “substituted holiday" the following

"or a holiday under section 39(5) or (8)".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 7th day of July, 1976.

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Acting Governor.

8th July, 1976.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

Thir printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bil

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Clerk to the Legislative Council.