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Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2010

TONGA

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2010
Act No. 10 of 2010

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT

I assent,
PRINCESS SALOTE PILOLEVU TUITA,
18th May 2010.

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2010.

(2) The Public Holidays Act (Cap. 51) shall be referred to in this Act, as the Principal Act.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by replacing the proviso with the following new proviso:

"Provided that when any public holidays specified, except Christmas Day, the day immediately succeeding Christmas Day, New Years Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday and ANZAC Day, falls upon a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday, that public holiday shall be celebrated on the next following Monday; and if it falls on a Tuesday or Wednesday, that public holiday shall be celebrated on the Monday before the actual public holiday."

Passed in the Legislative Assembly this 6^th day of April 2010.

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