Holidays Extension Act 1875
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1875 c. 13 |
| Year | 1875 |
Holidays Extension Act, 1875.
(38 & 39 Vict.) CHAPTER 13.
An Act to extend to the Docks, Custom Houses, Inland Revenue Offices, and Bonding Warehouses in England and Ireland certain provisions of The Bank Holidays Act, 1871, and to amend the same.
[13th May 1875]
W HEREAS it is expedient to amend ‘The Bank Holidays Act, 1871,’ (in this Act referred to as the Holidays Act of 1871,) and to extend certain of the holidays named therein to the Customs, bonding warehouses, and docks, and to amend the Acts relating to holidays in the inland revenue offices in England and Ireland:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows; that is to say,
1 Certain days mentioned in schedule to be holidays.
1. From and after the passing of this Act, the several days and each and every of them in the schedule to this Act mentioned, being holidays under the Holidays Act of 1871, shall be kept as public holidays in the Customs, inland revenue offices, and bonding warehouses in England and Ireland respectively; and it shall be lawful for the directors or governing body (by whatever name known) of any dock or docks in England and Ireland respectively to cause the said days or any of them to be kept as holidays in such dock or docks, any restraining clause in any Act of Parliament notwithstanding: Provided that such directors or governing body shall give notice thereof by inserting an advertisement to that effect in some newspaper circulating in the locality of such dock or docks, and by affixing to the principal gates of the said dock or docks, or to some conspicuous place in the immediate neighbourhood, a notice to the same effect for at least a week immediately preceding any day which it is intended to observe as a holiday under this Act; and the anniversary of the coronation of Her Majesty and her successors, and the birthday of the Prince of Wales shall no longer be kept as holidays in any inland revenue office in England or Ireland.
2 When 26th Dec. falls on a Sunday Monday to be the holiday.
2. Whenever the twenty-sixth day of December shall fall on a Sunday, the Monday immediately next following, that is to say, the twenty-seventh day of December, shall be a holiday...
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