Agricultural Workers (Holidays and Wages) Act, 1969
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PART II Agricultural Workers' Holidays | ||
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Public holidays. |
4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, each of the following days shall be a public holiday for the purposes of this Act: | |
(a) Christmas Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the 27th day of December, | ||
(b) St. Stephen's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the next following Monday, | ||
(c) St. Patrick's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the next following Monday, | ||
(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 , to be a bank holiday instead of a day mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, the day so appointed shall in that year be deemed to be substituted throughout that subsection for the day so mentioned. | ||
(3) The employer of any worker may substitute for any public holiday (other than Christmas Day or St. Patrick's Day) either— | ||
(a) the Church holiday falling in the same year immediately before the public holiday by giving to the worker, not less than fourteen days before the Church holiday, notice of his intention to effect the substitution, or | ||
(b) the Church holiday falling in the same year immediately after the public holiday or, if the public holiday is a day which is a public holiday by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, the 6th day of January next following by giving to the worker, not less than fourteen days before the public holiday, notice of his intention to effect the substitution, | ||
and whenever such notice is given, the substituted Church holiday shall in respect of the worker be a public holiday for the purposes of this Act instead of the day for which it is so substituted. | ||
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) of this section each of the following days shall be a Church holiday: | ||
(i) the 6th day of January, except when it falls on a Sunday, | ||
(ii) Ascension Thursday, | ||
(iii) the Feast of Corpus Christi, | ||
(iv) the 15th day of August, except when it falls on a Sunday, | ||
(v) the 1st day of November, except when it falls on a Sunday, | ||
(vi) the 8th day of December, except when it falls on a Sunday. | ||
(5) The Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries may, with respect to any day mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, by regulations substitute therefor any other day and, whenever any such regulations are in force, the other day shall be a public holiday for the purposes of this Act instead of the day for which it is substituted. | ||
(6) (a) The Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries may, with respect to any day mentioned in subsection (4) of this section, by regulations substitute therefor any other day and, whenever any such regulations are in force, the other day shall be a Church holiday for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section instead of the day for which it is substituted. | ||
(b) The Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries may, by regulations appoint a day to be an additional Church holiday for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section and, whenever any such regulations are in force, the day appointed shall be an additional Church holiday for the purposes of that subsection. | ||
(7) In this Act “public holiday” shall be construed in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section. |