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Public Service Amendment Act 1971

REPUBLIC OF NAURU


PUBLIC SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1971


(NO. 1 OF 1971)


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the attached document is a fair print of an Act entitled the Public Service Amendment Act 1971 that has been made by Parliament and is now presented to the Deputy Speaker for his Certificate under Article 47 of the Constitution.
Pursuant to Article 35 (3) and 47 of the Constitution, I, IDARABABWIN VICTOR EOAEO, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, HEREBY CERTIFY that the Public Service Amendment Act 1971, a copy of which is attached, has been passed by Parliament.
Clerk of Parliament.
8/2/71.
Deputy Speaker.
8/2/71.

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(No. 1 of 1971)


AN ACT


Certified: 8/2/71.


To amend the Public Service Act 1961-1968.


Be it enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:


Short Title and Citation.


1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Public Service Amendment Act 1971.


(2) The Public Service Act 1961-1968 is in this Act referred to as the principal Act.


(3) The principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Public Service Act 1961-1971.


Holidays.


2. Section 44 of the principal Act is repealed and the following Section 44 inserted in its stead:


"44. (1) Subject to this section the following days are holidays in the Public Service:–


The First day of January.


Independence Day, that is to say, the Thirty-first day of January and the following day.


Good Friday and the following Monday and Tuesday.


Constitution Day, that is to say, the Seventeenth day of May.


Angam Day, that is to say, the Twenty-sixth day of October.


Christmas Day and the following day.


(2) Whenever a day specified in the last preceding subsection except Independence Day and Christmas Day, falls on a Saturday or a Sunday the following Monday is a holiday.


(3) Whenever Independence Day or Christmas Day falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the following Monday and Tuesday are holidays.


(4) In addition to the days specified in subsection (1) of this section, the Chief Secretary on the advice of Cabinet may, by notice published in the Gazette, appoint a day or part of a day to be a holiday observed by officers and employees.


(5) The Chief Secretary on the advice of Cabinet may, in any year, declare that a day which would otherwise under this Section be observed as a holiday should not be a holiday in that year by a notice published in the Gazette not less than seven days before the day so declared, and that day shall cease to be a holiday in the Public Service in that year accordingly.


(6) The Chief Secretary on the advice of Cabinet may in the notice referred to in the last preceding subsection, appoint another day to be a holiday in that year in substitution for the day declared in that notice not to be a holiday in that year."

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