Holidays Act of 1912 (3 Geo v No. 17) (Qld)

HOLIDAYS. 3 GEO. V. No. 17, 1912. Holidays Act. DESTRUCTION OF PRICKLY PEAR. See LAND, CROWN. DRAINAGE OF MINES. See MINING. FIRMS, REGISTRATION OF. See MERCANTILE. FRIE.NDLY SOCIETIES. See SOCIETIES. FRUIT CASES. See AGRICULTL"RE. GOVERNMENT LOANS. See LOANS. GOVERNMENT SAVINGS BANK STOCK. See LOA.NS. GOVERNMENT STOCK. See LOANS. HOLIDAYS. An Act to Make Provision for Holidays and for other S Geo. V. purposes connected therewith, and to Repeal N T o H .1 E 7. "The Bank Holidays Acts, 1904-1906." HOLIDAYSACT OF 1912. [ASSENTED TO 5TH DECEMBER, 1912.J 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 Holidays Act OfShorfltitle. 1912." 2. "The Bank Holidays Acts" 1904-1906,"* are Repeal repeaIed. ~ Ho H lid ~ ays - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - Acts. 4 Edw. VII. No. 8 and 6 Edw. VII. No. 12, supra, pages 91 et seq.

5464 HOLIDAYS. Rolida.,!s Act. 3 G};O V. No. 17, Interpretation 3. In this Act the expression'" holiday" means a holiday constituted by or in pursuance of this Act. Holidays. 4. The several days mentioned in the Schedule to this [Schedule.] Act shall be kept as holidays in the State of Queensland. Special holidays. 5. The Home Seeretary may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, appoint a special day or the afternoon of such day to be observed as a public holiday or part public holiday either throughout Queensland or in any part thereof or in any city, to'wn, or district therein, and may in like manner cancel any such appointment. Any day or afternoon of a day AO appointed shall be kept as a holiday within the locality mentioned in such notification, and shall be deemed to be a holiday for all the purposes of this Aet. Daya.ppointed 6. The Home Secretary, from time to time, when it for holiday is made to appear to him in any special case that it is :r:!r::' inexpedient that a day by this Act appointed for a holiday should be a holiday, may declare, by notification in the Gazette published not less than one week before the day appointed for such holiday, that such day shall not be a holiday, and may appoint such other day as to him may seem fit to be a holiday instead of such day. Thereupon the day so appointed shall be substituted for the day appointed by this Act. The powers vested in the Home Secretary by this section may be exercised so as to take effect either generally or for any limited period or for any year, and may be limited to any specified city, town, district, or locality within the State. As to work 7. Save as hereinafter provid.ed, and save as provided dhoonliedaoyns by subsection seventeen of section fifty-four of "The except those Factories and Shops .Act of 1900,"* no work done by any broii~ d : ~ ~ workman for or person in the employment of any other P~ ac~ l~ t person during ordinary working hours on any holiday shall be regarded as overtime work. This section does not apply to the holidays mentioned in " The Industrial Peace .Act of 1912,"t wherein it is provided that work done by an employee on any of those days shall be regarded as overtime work and paid for at the rate of time and a-half. 64 Vie. No. 28, $'upr-a, pagc 1270. t 3 Geo. V. No. 19, infra, page 5467.

HOLIDAYS. 5'165 1912. Bolida.IIS Act. 8. In section forty-seven of " The Public Service Act Amend~ ent o t h f I . S 18 A 9 c 6 t " a * ndthaenwy oortdhser"ddaayysomr peanrtitoonfeda dinaythperoScclahiemdue1lebtoy o 15 f , 6s0. 4 V 7 I ; e. SNcho. . the Governor in Council as a public holiday" are repealed, and the words "holidays appointed under or in pursuance of 'The Holidays A.ct 0/ 1912'" are inserted in lieu thereof. The Schedule of the first-mentioned Act is repealed. :a 9. Any bank, on giving the public notice hereinafter Banks and mentioned, may close the bank, or any branch of the bank, ~~ a~~ ~ :1 y to business on any day in the afternoon. cerbain . Public notice of such closing shall be given by the dternoons. bank by advertisement published between the third and the fourteenth day before the day of such closing in at least one issue of some newspaper published or circulating 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 he continued without any notice whatsoever. . 10. The several holidays mentioned in the Schedule B'1nk to this Act, and every holiday or part holiday appointed by holiday!. or in pursuance of section five or section nine of this Act, shall be deemed to be bank holidays or bank half-holidays, as the case may be, within the meaning of the Act of the Commonwealth intituled the "Bills of Exchange A.ct 1909."t "" 1)0 Vic. No. 15, supra, page 2817. t Nu. 27 of 1909.

5461) HOLIDAYS.-INCOME TAX. Income Tax Deelarator.1J Act. 3 GEO. V. No. 24, 1912. [Section 41 I SCHEDULE. The first day of January (New The twenty-third day of April (St. Year's Day) George's Day) The twenty-sixth day of January, The first day of May (Labour Day) (Foundation Day) The Birthdav'of the Sovereign The first day of March (St. David's The second Monday in September Day) (Friendly Societies' Day) The seventeenth day of March (St. The thirtieth day of November (St. Patrick's Day) Andrew's Day) Good Friday Christmas Day The Saturday next after Good The twenty-sixth day of December :Friday (Boxing :Qay) Easter Monday When any of the above days falls upon a Sunday, the next following Monday shall be a holiday; and whenever the twenty-sixth day of December falls upon a Monday, the day following shall be a holiday. When any of the following days, that is to say, Foundation Day or Labour Day, falls on any day of the week other than Monday, that day shall not be a holiday, hut the following Monday shall be a holiday in lieu thereof, unless otherwise notified by the Home Secretary in the Gazette. ' INCOME TAX. 3 N G o e . o 2 . 4 V . . An Act to Declare the Meaning of Section 7 of "The THE IKCOME TAX Income Tax Act of 1902" with respect to the DECLARATORY .ACT OF 1912. Distribution of the Profits of Companies. [ASSENTED TO 7TH DECEMBER, 1912.] 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 : - Short title and 1. This Act shall be read as one with " The Income o co f nasctrtu. ction Tax Act of 1902,"* herein referred to as the Principal Act, and may be cited as " The Income Tax JJeclaratory Act cif 1912." Interpreta- tion of !. 7. 2. After the second proviso to subsection (iv.) of section seven of the Principal Act, the following provision is inserted :- . When any undistributed profits of a company standing to the credit of Profit and Loss Account or of Reserves are transferred to capital in any way or applied in any way in reduction of assets, such transfer or application 2 Edw. VIr. No. 10, supra, page 970.