Victorian Current Acts

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT 1993 - SECT 8

S. 8(1) amended by No. 22/2011 s. 3(1).

    (1)     Subject to section 8A, the Minister, by notice published in the Government Gazette, may—

        (a)     declare that a day appointed—

              (i)     as a public holiday under section 6; or

              (ii)     as a public holiday or public half‑holiday under section 7(1)(a) ; or

              (iii)     as a public holiday or public half‑holiday under this subsection—

is not in a specified year such a holiday; and

        (b)     appoint—

              (i)     in the case of a public holiday, another day or 2 half-days;

              (ii)     in the case of a public half‑holiday, another half-day or day;

              (iii)     in the case of 2 public half‑holidays, another day—

as a public holiday or public half‑holiday in that year.

    (2)     A notice under subsection (1) may be expressed so as to apply—

        (a)     throughout the whole of the State or in a specified part of the State; or

        (b)     to all persons to whom and bodies to which this Act applies or to a specified class of person or body; or

        (c)     as specified in both paragraphs (a) and (b).

S. 8(3) substituted by No. 22/2011 s. 3(2).

    (3)     The day, half-day or 2 half-days appointed under subsection (1) replaces or replace the public holiday, public half-holiday or public half-holidays for which the day, half-day or 2 half-days was or were substituted.

S. 8(4)–(6) repealed by No. 22/2011 s. 3(2).

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S. 8A inserted by No. 22/2011 s. 4.