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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 593.-The following Bill is published for general information :-

[No. 33-25.11.40.-1.}

A BILL

Short title.

Substitution for Ordin-

ance No.

5 of 1912,

s. 2 (b).

Ordinance

No. 26 of

1913.

Substitution for Ordin-

ance No. 5 of 1912,

s. 3 (12).

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 5 of

1912, s. 4.

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 5 of

1912, s. 5.

Amendments

of Ordinance

No. 5 of

1912, s. 7.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, s. 8.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Holidays Ordinance, 1912.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Holidays Amend- ment Ordinance, 1941.

2. Section 2 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is amended by the repeal of paragraph (b) thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following paragraph :-

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(b) School holiday means a day which shall be kept by all Government schools, military schools and schools registered under the Education Ordinance, 1913.

3. Section 3 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is amended by the repeal of paragraph (12) thereof and by the sub- stitution therefor of the following paragraph:-

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

4. Section 4 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is amended in the first line thereof and also in the marginal note thereto by the substitution of the words School holiday" for the words "public holiday".

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5. Section 5 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is section amended by the substitution of the words and figure 3" for the words and figures sections 3 and 4" in the second line thereof.

6. Section 7 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is amended:

(i) by the repeal of the words or as a public" in the third line thereof; and

(ii) by the repeal of the words and figure "or in section 4" in the fourth line thereof.

7. Section 8 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is amended by the repeal of the words or public" in the fifth and sixth lines thereof.