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Public Holidays Amendment Act 1921

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Special provisions applicable when Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on a Sunday.

Public Holidays Amendment Act 1921

Public Act		1921 No 31
Date of assent		21 December 1921

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Special provisions applicable when Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on a Sunday.

An Act to amend the Public Holidays Act, 1910.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Public Holidays Amendment Act, 1921, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Public Holidays Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Special provisions applicable when Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on a Sunday.

(1.)

Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (d), and substituting the following paragraph:—

“(d)

To New Year’s Day, such reference shall, when New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday, hereafter be deemed to be to the next succeeding Monday.”

(2.)

When Christmas Day falls on a Sunday the following rules shall apply with respect to the construction of the provisions of any Act, award, or industrial agreement in so far as they relate to Sunday, Christmas Day, or Boxing Day, that is to say:—

(a.)

Where provision is made for the granting of a holiday, or the observance of certain hours of labour, or the payment of certain rates of wages on Sundays, such provisions shall apply without modification on the Sunday being Christmas Day:

(b.)

Where provision is made for the granting of a holiday, or the observance of certain hours of labour, or the payment of certain rates of wages on Christmas Day, such provisions shall apply on the next succeeding Monday as if it were Christmas Day:

(c.)

Where provision is made for the granting of a holiday, or the observance of certain hours of labour, or the payment of certain rates of wages on Boxing Day, such provisions shall apply on the next succeeding Tuesday as if it were Boxing Day.

Public Holidays Amendment Act 1921