CHAPTER 35
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT

[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    Section

Title

    1.    Short title.

    2.    Public holidays.

    3.    Alteration or addition of a public holiday.

    4.    When public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

    5.    Right to open public offices and require attendance of public servants and Government employees.

    6.    [Repealed.]

SCHEDULE

CHAPTER 35
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT

An Act to make provision for public holidays and for related matters.

[8th October, 1920]

Ords. Nos.
2 of 1920
10 of 1938
31 of 1960
43 of 1961
Acts Nos.
21 of 1962
57 of 1964
28 of 1966
1 of 1993
10 of 1994
25 of 2002
G.Ns. Nos.
79 of 1977
300 of 1985
296 of 1994

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1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Public Holidays Act.

2.    Public holidays

    The days set out in the Schedule to this Act shall in every year be observed as public holidays.

3.    Alteration or addition of a public holiday

    The President may, by proclamation, declare any day to be a public holiday in addition to the days set out in the Schedule or in substitution for any of them and thereupon such day shall be a public holiday as if it were set out in the Schedule.

4.    When public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday

    If any day appointed to be a public holiday falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the next following day, not being itself a public holiday shall be a public holiday and shall be also kept as a public holiday in lieu of the Saturday or Sunday.

5.    Right to open public offices and require attendance of public servants and Government employees

    It shall be lawful for the head of any Government department to open the offices and works thereof and to call any persons employed in such department to perform such of their duties on a public holiday as he may deem fit.

6.    Repealed

    [Repealed by R.L. Cap. 430 s. 29.]

SCHEDULE

(Section 2)