Hong Kong Ordinances

GENERAL HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE - SECT 6

Additional or substituted general holidays and amendment of Schedule

(Past version on 01/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 54 of 2000 s. 3

(1) The Legislative Council may by resolution-

   (a)  appoint any day in any particular year to be observed as a
        general holiday in addition to, or in substitution for, any day
        specified in the Schedule;

   (b)  amend the Schedule by-

        (i)    adding any day to the list of days which are to be observed as
               a general holiday or removing any day from that list;

        (ii)   altering the designation of any general holiday or the day on
               which it is to be observed;

        (iii)  making such provision supplementary to any such addition or
               alteration as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of
               giving full effect to the amendment including provision
               enabling the Chief Executive to vary the day on which a
               general holiday is to be observed. (Amended 35 of 1998 s. 3; 54
               of 2000 s. 3)

(2) Subject to subsection (3), if in any year two general holidays fall on the
same day, the next following day that is not itself a general  holiday is to
be observed as an additional general holiday in that year. (Replaced 35 of
1998 s. 3)

(3) The Chief Executive in Council may, by order in the Gazette, appoint any
day in any year to be observed as an additional general  holiday in place of
another day that would otherwise be an additional general holiday in that year
under subsection (2). (Added 35 of 1998 s. 3) (Replaced 70 of 1983 s. 3)