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REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA R 0.30 No. 125WINDHOEK - 20 December 1990

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GOVERNMENT NOTICE

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No. 94 Promulgation of Public Holidays Act, 1990 (Act 6 of 1990, ofthe National Assembly .

Government Nptice

OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER

No. 94 1990

PROMULGATION OF ACT OF THE NATIONAL AS~EMBLY

The following Act which has been passed bv the National Assembly and signed by the President in terms of the Narnibian Constitution is hereby published in terms of Article 56 of that Cons titution.

No. 26 of 1990: Public Holidays Act, 1990

20 December 1990 No. 125

Act No. 26, 1990

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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT, 1990

Public Holidays.

Interpretation of laws.

Repeal of Act 7 of 1987.

Short title and com- mencement.

ACT To provide for public holidays and for incidental matters.

(Signed by the President on 06 December 1990)

BE IT ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia, as follows:-

1. (1) The days specified in the Schedule shall be public holidays.

(2) When a public holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday shall also be a public holiday, unless that Monday is a public holiday.

(3) The President may by proclamation in the Gazette declare any day in a particular year, not being a public holiday in terms of subsection (1) or (2), to be a public holiday.

2. Any reference in any law to a public holiday, shall be construed as a reference to a public holiday referred to in section 1.

3. The Public Holidays Act, 1987, is hereby re- pealed.

4. This Act shall be called the Public Holidays Act, 1990, and shall come into operation on 1 February 1991.

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Act No. 26, 1990 PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT, 1990

SCHEDULE

New Year's Day Good Friday Easter Monday Independence Day (the twenty-first day of March) Workers Day (the first day of May) Cassinga Day (the fourth day of May) Ascension Day Africa Day (the twenty-fifth day of May) Heroes Day (the twenty-sixth day of August) International Human Rights Day (the tenth day of De- cember) Christmas Day (the twenty-fifth day of December) Family Day (the twenty-sixth day of December).

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