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LAWS OF FIJI
CHAPTER 101
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1931, 5 of 1937
AN ACT
TO MAKE PROVISION FOR PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
[9th February, 1931]
Short title
1.
This Act may be cited as the Public Holidays Act.
Certain days to be holidays
2.-(1)
The several days in the Schedule mentioned, hereinafter referred to as public
holidays, shall be kept as close holidays in all
public offices and banks in
Fiji. If any of these public holidays fall on a Sunday, the following Monday
shall be a public holiday
unless otherwise ordered by the Minister by
notification in the
Gazette.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1), when either of the days
following falls on any day of the week other than
Monday such day shall not be a
public holiday but either the preceding or the following Monday as the Minister
shall appoint by notification
in the
Gazette
shall be a public holiday in lieu thereof-
(a) the anniversary of the birthday of the Heir to the Throne;
(b) the tenth day of October.
(3)
When the twenty-sixth day of December falls on a Monday the day following shall
be a public holiday.
Bills due on public holidays to be payable on following day
3.
All bills of exchange and promissory notes which are due and payable on any such
public holiday shall be payable and, in case of
non-payment, may be noted and
protested on the next following day and not on such public holiday, and any such
noting and protest
shall be as valid as if made on the day on which the bill or
note was made due and payable and for all the purposes of this Act the
day next
following a public holiday shall mean the next following day on which a bill of
exchange may be lawfully noted or protested.
Provision as to notice of dishonour and presentation for honour
4.
When the day on which any notice of dishonour of an unpaid bill of exchange or
promissory note should be given or when the day on
which a bill of exchange or
promissory note should be presented or received for acceptance or accepted or
forwarded to any referee
or referees is a public holiday, such notice of
dishonour shall be given and such bill of exchange or promissory note shall be
presented
or forwarded on the day next following such public
holiday.
As to any payments on public holidays
5.
No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any act upon such
public holiday which he would not be compellable to
do or make on a Sunday and
the obligation to make such payment and do such act shall apply to the day
following such public holiday
and the making of such payment and the doing of
such act on such following day shall be equivalent to payment of the money or
performance
of the act on the public holiday.
Appointment of special public holidays
6.
The Minister may be notification in the Gazette appoint a special day or any
part of a day to be kept as a close holiday in all public
offices and in all
banks in Fiji or in any part thereof or in any town or district, and everyday so
appointed shall, as regards bills
of exchange and promissory notes, be deemed to
be a public holiday for all the purposes of this Act.
Right
to
open
public
offices
and
require
attendance
of
public
servants
and government
employees
7.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act the head of any Government
department may open the offices and works thereof and call
upon all or any
persons employed in such department to perform such of their duties on any
public holiday as to such head of department
may seem fit.
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THE SCHEDULE
(Section 2(1))
(Amended by 5 of 1937, s.2)
The first day of January.
Good Friday.
The day after Good Friday.
Easter Monday.
The day appointed for the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of the Sovereign.
The anniversary of the birthday of the Heir to the Throne.
The first Monday in August.
The tenth day of October.
Christmas Day.
The twenty-sixth day of December.
Controlled by Ministry for Labour, Industrial Relations and Immigration
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