Central Bank Act, 1989.

Payments on public holidays not compellable.

135.—(1) No person shall be compellable to make any payment or do any act on a public holiday which he would not be compellable to make or do on Christmas Day or Good Friday by virtue of any rule of law.

(2) Where a person would, apart from this section, be compellable to make any payment or to do any act on a public holiday, his obligation to make such payment or to do such act shall be deemed to be complied with if he makes or does it on the next following day on which he is compellable to make or do it.

(3) In this section “public holiday” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 .