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No. 1.1 THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1875.
No. 1 of 1863. the Admiralty (Vesting of Property) Ordinance, 1863.
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1875.
A.D. 1875. AN ORDINANCE to provide for Public and Bank Holidays.
Ordinance No. 6 of 1875.
Short title.
Certain days to be public holidays. First Schedule.
Power to make regulations restricting public holidays.
GG 10.4.08; GN 673; 18-12-05; See Y.G. 12.4.06; CA 245; GN 837; GG 20.12.07
Certain days to be bank holidays. Second Schedule. Payment of negotiable instrument falling due on bank holiday. Making of protest after a bank holiday.
[7th July, 1875.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that certain days in the year should be declared public holidays and bank holidays respectively:
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Holidays Ordinance, 1875.
2. The several days mentioned in the First Schedule to this Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as public holidays) shall, in addition to Sundays, be dies non, and shall be kept (except as hereinafter provided) as holidays in this Colony.
3. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make regulations excluding in whole or in part from the operation of this Ordinance any public office or any department thereof, and thereupon all acts and things relating to such public office or department thereof may be done and performed on any public holiday, notwithstanding the provisions of this Ordinance.
4. The several days mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance shall be bank holidays, and shall be kept as holidays in all banks in the Colony.
5. All bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments due and payable on any such bank holiday shall be payable on the next following day and not on such bank holiday.
6. In case of non-acceptance or non-payment of any negotiable instrument, the same may be noted or protested on the next following day after a bank holiday, and any such noting or protest shall be as valid as if made on the previous day.
7. No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any other act relating to a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument on a public holiday or on a bank holiday, and the obligation to make such payment or to do such other act shall apply to the day next following such public holiday or bank holiday, and the making of such payment or the doing of such other act on such following day shall be equivalent to doing it on the public holiday.
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No. 1.1 THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1875.
No. 1 of 1863. the Admiralty (Vesting of Property) Ordinance, 1863.
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1875.
A.D. 1875. AN ORDINANCE to provide for Public and Bank Holidays.
Ordinance No. 6 of 1875.
Short title.
Certain days
• J.J. 23-12-0 to be public
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holidays. First Schedule.
Power to
GG 10.4.08 Pake regula, Tide 63/07 ing public £6.26.7.67300.98 18-12-05 See Y. G. 12.4.06
CA 245 tions restrict-
holidays.
GG 20.12.07 GN 837
Certain days to be bank holidays. Second Schedule. Payment of negotiable instrument
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[7th July, 1875.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that certain days in the year should be
declared public holidays and bank holidays respectively:
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :----
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Holidays Ordinance, 1875.
2. The several days mentioned in the First Schedule to this Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as public holidays) shall, in addition to Sundays, be dies non, and shall be kept (except as hereinafter provided) as holi- days in this Colony.
3. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make regulations
excluding in whole or in part from the operation of this Ordinance any
public office or any department thereof, and thereupon all acts and
things relating to such public office or department thereof may be done and performed on any public holiday, notwithstanding the provisions of this Ordinance.
4. The several days mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Ordi- nance shall be bank holidays, and shall be kept as holidays in all banks in the Colony.
5. All bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable in- struments due and payable on any such bank holiday shall be payable on the next following day and not on such bank holiday.
6. In case of non-acceptance or non-payment of any negotiable in- protest falling strument, the same may be noted or protested on the next following day bank holiday. after a bank holiday, and any such noting or protest shall be as valid as
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