Bank Holidays Act of 1904 (4 Edw VII No. 8) (Qld)

BANKS. 4 EDW. VII. No. 8,1904. Bank Holidays. APPROPRIATION ACTS. c See CONSTITUTION. BANKS. See also AGRICULTURA.J, BA.NK. An Act to make provision for Bank Holidays and 4 Edw. VII. respecting Obligations to make Payments and TH~ ~ : K do other Acts on such Holidays. A!TO~~t;~4. [ASSENTED TO 22ND NOVEMBER, 1904.] B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : - 1. This Act may be cited as "The Bank Boliday8 Short title and Act of 1904," and shall commence and take effect on and : ! ~ ence. from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five. 2. " The Bank Holidays Act of 1877 ,,* is repealed. Repeal of 41 Vie.No.13. 3. In this A ct- Interpreta. The expression "bank holiday" means a bank holiday tion. constituted by or in pursuance of this Act. The expression '~ the day next following" means the day next following a bank holiday (not being itself a bank holiday) on which a "bill of exchange or promissory note may be lawfully noted or protested, or on which any obligation to make any payment or to do any act relating to banking transactions may be enforced. • 4. The several days mentioned in the Schedule to Ba1!-k this Act shall be kept as close holidays in all banks in ~ ~ ~ ~ j~ e. J the State of Queensland. 5. The Governor in Council may from time to time Spe~ l bank by proclamation in the Gazette appoint a special day or the ~ ; ll' la~ ~ · Vic. afternoon of such day to be observed as a public holiday c. 17,8. 4.J or part public holiday either throughout Queensland or in any part thereof or in any city, town, or district therein. Any day or afternoon of a day so appointed shall be kept as a close holiday in all banks within the locality mentioned in such proclamation, and shall be deemed to be a bank holiday for all the purposes of this Act. '" 41 Vie. No. 13, supra, page 61.

, 8666 BANKS. Bank Holidays. 4 Enw. VU. No. 8, D!lyappointed 6. The Governor in Council, from time to time, when ~: li~ : ; kmay it is made to appear to him in any special case that in any be altered. . year it is inexpedient that a day by this Act appointed for ~ ~ i7~ :'553 lC• a bank holiday should be a bank holiday, may declare, by proclamation in the Gazette published not less than one week before the day appointed for such holiday, that such day shall not jn such year be a bank holiday, and may appoint such other day as to the Governor in Council may seem fit to be a bank holiday instead of such day. Thereupon the day so appointed shall in such year be substituted for the day so appointed by this Act. Bills due.on 7. All bills of exchange and promissory notes which . ~ ban ~ k h ~ olid ~ ays are d . ue and payable on a bank holiday shall be payable , on following and In case of non-payment may be noted and protested, on t:r'&35 Vie. the day next following and not on such bank holiday. c.17, s. 1.J Any such noting or protest shall be as valid as if made on the day on which the bill of exchange or promis- sory note was made due and payable. As t? notices 8. When the day on which any notice of dishonour o [3 f 4 dl & sh 3 o 5 no V ~ l r C . . of an • unpaid bill of exchange 01' promissory note should 0.17, s. 2.J be gIven is a bank holiday, such notice of dishonour shall be given on the .day next following and not on such bank holidav. Presentation When the day on which a bill of exchange or promis- for honour. sory note should be presented or received for acceptance or payment, or accepted or forwarded to any referee, is a bank holiday, such bill of exchange or promissory note shall be presented or forwarded on the day next following. As to 9. No person shall be compellable to make any pay- b: ~ ~ ~ ~ i~ d~ ;. ment or to do any act relating to banking transactions [34 & 35 Vic. upon a bank holiday which he would not be compellable to c. 17, A. 3.J do or make on a Sunday , and the obli< ~ Yation to make such payment and to do such act shall apply to the day next following. The making of such payment and doing such act on the day next following shall be equivalent to payment of the money or performance of the act on the holiday. Banks and 10. Any bank, on giving the public notice herein- ~ : a~ l~ ~ : ~ ~:y after mentioned, may close the bank, or any branch of the certain bank, to business on any day in the afternoon. afternoons. Public notice of such closing shall be given by the bank by advertisement published between the third and the fourteenth day before the day of such closing in at "

BANKS. 8667 1904. Bank Holidays. • least one issue of some newspaper published or circu- ll:l.ting in the neighbourhood of any bank or branch proposed to be so closed: Provided that- (a) In all cases where it is proposed to close such bank or branch during the afternoon of one specified day in every week until further notice, it shall be sufficient to give public notice of such closing by advertisement, published as aforesaid, in one issue of such newspaper; (b) In all cases where any branch has heretofore been closed during the afternoon of Saturday in every week, such closing may be continued without any permission or notice whatsoever. On any day on which it is lawful under this section and Efl' ~ ct of such -section five of this Act to close any bank or branch as afore- closmg. said, no time in the afternoon of that day shall in respect .of any business at such bank or branch be a reasonable time within the meaning of " The Bills ofExchange .Act of 1884,"* or shall be within banking or business hours within :any law, practice, or custom relating to banks or bankers. SCHEDULE. [Section 4.) 'The first day of January The twenty-sixth day of January The seventeenth day of March Good Priday The day after Good Friday Easter Monday The first day of May 'The twenty-fourth day of May The first day of August The 8econd Monday in September The Birthday of His Majesty or HIS Successor The tenth day of December Christmas Day The twenty-sixth day of December When any of the above days falls upon a Sunday, the next following Monday shall be a bank holiday; and whenever the twenty-sixth day of De?ember falls upon a Monday, the day following shall be a bank holIday. When any of the following days, that is to say, the twenty-sixth day <of January, the first day of May, the twenty-fourth day of May, the first day of .A ugust, the Birthday of His Majesty or His Successor, or the tenth day of December, falls on any day of the week other than Monday, that day shall not be a bank holiday, but the following Monday shall be .a bank holiday in lieu thereof, unless otherwise proclaimed by notice in the Gazette. "" 48 Vie. No. 10, supra, page 726. CLUBS, REGISTRATION. See LIQUOR.