Section 7: Special public holiday
consolidated text (as at 1991). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
7. Special public holiday
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the President may, by Proclamation, appoint a special day to be observed as a public holiday and a day so appointed
shall be a public holiday for the purposes of this Act.
(2) A special holiday shall be of a non-religious character.
[S. 6 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]
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SCHEDULE
[Section 3]
Sundays
1 January
2 January
12 March
1 May
Cavadee
Maha Shivaratree
Id-el-Fitr
Chinese Spring Festival
Ougadi
Ganesh Chaturthi
Divali
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SCHEDULE—continued
All Saints Day
Christmas
[Sch. amended by Act 43 of 1983; Act 17 of 1987.]
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