Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

Public holiday.

7.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the following days and no other days shall be public holidays within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act, that is to say:—

(a) Christmas Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the 27th day of December, and

(b) St. Stephen's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the next following Monday, and

(c) St. Patrick's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the next following Monday, and

(d) Easter Monday, Whit Monday, and the first Monday in August.

(2) Whenever in any year a day is appointed under the Public Holidays Act, 1924 (No. 56 of 1924), to be a bank holiday instead of a day mentioned in the next preceding sub-section of this section, the day so appointed shall in that year be deemed to be substituted throughout this section for the day so mentioned and this section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

(3) Any employer may, on giving not less than one month's previous notice to all persons in his employment, substitute for the purposes of this section, any of the following days for St. Stephen's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, for the next following Monday, that is to say:—

(a) the 1st day of January,

(b) the 6th day of January,

(c) Ascension Thursday,

(d) the Feast of Corpus Christi,

(e) the 29th day of June,

(f) the 15th day of August,

(g) the 1st day of November,

(h) the 8th day of December.

(4) Any employer may, on giving not less than one month's previous notice to all persons in his employment, substitute, for the purposes of this section, in any year any of the following days for Easter Monday, Whit Monday, or the first Monday in August, that is to say:—

(a) Ascension Thursday,

(b) the Feast of Corpus Christi,

(c) the 29th day of June,

(d) the 15th day of August.

(5) The following provisions shall have effect for the purposes of the two next preceding sub-seections of this section, that is to say:—

(a) the notice mentioned in each of the said two next preceding sub-sections shall be in writing and may be given to any person by handing a copy thereof to him personally or by posting a copy thereof in a conspicuous position in the place in which such person is employed;

(b) no day mentioned in either of the said two next preceding sub-sections shall be substituted under that sub-section in a year in which such day falls on a Sunday;

(c) when a day mentioned in either of the said two next preceding sub-sections is substituted under that sub-section by an employer in respect of any year, the day so substituted shall, in that year and in respect of all persons employed by such employer, be a public holiday within the meaning aud for the purposes of this Act instead of the day for which it is so substituted.