Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

HOLIDAYS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1992 (NO. 43 OF 1992) - SECT 3

3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—

    (a)     by omitting from subsection (1) “the next succeeding subsection” and substituting “subsections (2) and (3)”;

    (b)     by inserting in subparagraph (1) (a) (i) “Saturday or” before “Sunday”;

    (c)     by inserting in subparagraph (1) (a) (viii) “Saturday or” before “Sunday”;

    (d)     by omitting subparagraph (1) (a) (ix) and substituting the following subparagraph:

    “(ix)     the twenty-sixth day of December (Boxing Day), or—

(A)     if that day falls on a Saturday, the following Monday; or

(B)     if that day falls on a Sunday or Monday, the following Tuesday; and”;

    (e)     by omitting from subsection (2) “(a) of the last preceding subsection” and substituting “(1) (a)”; and

    (f)     by adding at the end the following subsections:

“(3) When, but for this subsection, a person would be entitled under an award to observe as a holiday a weekday (being a day that is not to be observed as a public holiday in the Territory pursuant to this Act) following a substituted public holiday, the provisions of this Act by virtue of which that substituted public holiday is to be observed as a public holiday in the Territory do not apply in relation to that person.

“(4) In subsection (3)—

‘award' has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Industrial Relations Act 1988 of the Commonwealth;

‘substituted public holiday' means a day that, under subsection 3 (1), is to be observed as a public holiday in the Territory by reason only that another day or date specified in paragraph 3 (1) (a) falls on a Saturday or Sunday.”.