HOLIDAYS

(1) No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to do or make on Sunday ; and the obligation to make such payment and do such act shall apply to the day next following the bank holiday which is not itself a Sunday or a bank holiday ; and the making of such payment and doing such act on such following day shall be equivalent to payment of the money or performance of the act on the holiday.

(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the law for the time being in force relating to bills of exchange or promissory notes, nor shall anything in this section apply to any payment or act to be made or done in court or public office on a bank holiday which is not a public holiday.

(1) The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister charged with the administration of the functions of the office or department concerned,1 may, from time to time, make regulations, to be published in the Gazette 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.

(2) All such regulations shall, as soon as conveniently may be, be laid before the Senate and the House of Representatives,[1] and may, at any of the next following three meetings, be rescinded by resolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives, [1] but without prejudice to anything already done thereunder, and if not so rescinded shall be deemed to be valid.