265 Public Holidays

AuthorRalph Hone
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CHAPTER 265.

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

  1. SHORT TITLE.

  2. INTERPRETATION.

  3. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

  4. GOVERNOR AUTHORIZED TO APPOINT SPECIAL HOLIDAYS.

  5. HOURS OF ATrENDANCE OF PUBLIC OFFICERS.

  6. CLOSING OF SHOPS ON FRIDAYS.

  7. CUSTOMER IN SHOP AT CLOSING HOUR MAY BE SERVED.

  8. CLOSING OF SHOPS ON SUNDAYS.

  9. EXCEPTION OF GARAGES, ETC.

  10. EXCEPTION OF CERTAIN STORES.

  11. DRUG STORES MAY OPEN FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.

  12. LICENSED LIQUOR PREMISES SUBJECT TO PROVISIONS OF AcT.

  13. PENALTIES.

  14. RECOVERY OF PENALTIES.

    SCHEDULES.

    FIRST SCHEDULE-LIST OF PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

    SECOND SCHEDULE-SHOPS, ETC., WHICH GOVERNOR MAY AUTHORIZE TO BE OPEN ON FRIDAY EVENINGS.

    CHAPTER 265.

    PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

    AN ACT RELATING TO THE CLOSING OF ALL PUBLIC OFFICES, BANKS, AND SHOPS ON SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

    [21st February 1938.1

  15. This Act may be cited as The Public Holidays Act.

  16. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'dealer' means any person selling or dealing in, either by wholesale or retail, any goods or articles of merchandise, and includes any clerk or employee of such dealer;

    'limits of Nassau' includes all that part of New Providence which lies within and between the following boundaries including such boundaries, namely: North, the Harbour of Nassau;

    East, Church Street; South, Meeting Street, and a line drawn from the eastern end of such street eastwardly until it reaches a line drawn southwardly from the southern end of Church Street; and West, Augusta Street;

    'shop' includes any place of business or restaurant within the limits of Nassau in which any goods or articles of merchandise (other than food, cooked or prepared for consumption on the premises) are sold, or kept, offered or exposed for sale either by wholesale or retail.

  17. The several days mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act (which days are hereinafter referred to as 'public holidays') shall be kept as close holidays in all public offices and banks, and in all shops:

    Provided that when any public holiday shall fall on a Sunday the following day shall be observed and kept as a public holiday:

    15 of 1938.

    19 of 1941.

    20 of 1954.

    57 of 1961.

    46 of 1962.

    2 of 1964.

    43 of 1964.

    Short title.

    Interpretation.

    Public holidays.

    19 of 1941, s. 2.

    First Schedule.

    46 of 1962, s. 2.

    Governor authorized to appoint special holidays.

    Hours of attendance of public officers.

    Provided also that nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to prohibit the opening of any shop on any public holiday(a) for the sale of any drugs or medicines;

    (b) for the sale of ice;

    (c) for the sale of bread, fresh and frozen fish, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, butchers' meat, and fresh dairy products, until the hour of ten...

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