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General Holidays under the

Holidays Ordinance (Cap. 149)

(a) Every Sunday;

(b)

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holidays specified in the Employment

The nine 'fixed'

Ordinance (except

Festival is not provided

that the Chinese Winter Solstice

as an optional alternative

holiday to Chirstmas Day);

(c)

Good Friday;

(d)

the day following Good Friday;

(e) Easter Monday;

(1) the birthday of Her Majesty The Queen;

(g) the

(h)

Monday following the birthday of Her Majesty The

Queen;

the Saturday preceding the last Monday in August;

(i) Liberation Day, being the last Monday in August; and

(j) the first week-day after Christmas Day.

There is provision under the Ordinance for the reassignment

of holidays to avoid the loss

holiday falls on a Sunday or

coincide.

of a day where a general

where two general holidays