Norfolk Island Continued Laws Amendment (Public Holidays) Ordinance 2016 (Cth)

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Amendment (Public Holidays) Ordinance 2016

Ordinance No. 13, 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.

Dated 08 December 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Fiona Nash

Minister for Local Government and Territories

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015  2

1  Name

This is the Norfolk Island Continued Laws Amendment (Public Holidays) Ordinance 2016.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this Ordinance specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this Ordinance	The day after this Ordinance is registered.	15 December 2016

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Ordinance as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Ordinance.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Ordinance. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Ordinance.

3  Authority

This Ordinance is made under the Norfolk Island Act 1979.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Ordinance has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

1  After item 74C of Schedule 1

Insert:

74CA  Section 9

Repeal the section, substitute:

9  Public holidays

(1)  Each of the following days in a year is to be observed as a public holiday:

(a)  1 January (New Year’s Day);

(b)  if 1 January is a Saturday or Sunday—the next Monday;

(c)  26 January (Australia Day) but, if that day is a Saturday or Sunday, the next Monday;

(d)  6 March (Foundation Day);

(e)  if 6 March is a Sunday—7 March;

(f)  Good Friday;

(g)  Easter Monday;

(h)  25 April (Anzac Day);

(i)  8 June (Bounty Day);

(j)  if 8 June is a Saturday or Sunday—the next Monday;

(k)  the first Monday after the second Saturday in June but, if that Monday is the same as the one mentioned in paragraph (j), the next Monday (the Sovereign’s birthday holiday);

(l)  the last Wednesday in November (Thanksgiving);

(m)  25 December (Christmas Day);

(n)  if 25 December is a Saturday or Sunday—27 December;

(o)  26 December (Boxing Day);

(p)  if 26 December is a Saturday or Sunday—28 December;

(q)  the day declared under subsection (2) to be Show Day.

(2)  The Commonwealth Minister must, by legislative instrument, declare a specified day of a year to be Show Day.

2  Items 76P and 76Q of Schedule 1

Repeal the items, substitute:

76P  Regulation 3A

Repeal the regulation.

3  At the end of Division 3 of Part 2 of Schedule 1

Add:

353A  Public holidays

(1)       The repeal and substitution of section 9 of the Employment Act 1988 (Norfolk Island), and the repeal of regulation 3A of the Employment Regulations 1991 (Norfolk Island), by this Schedule apply to 2016 and later years.

(2)       However, paragraphs 9(1)(a) to (l) and (q), and subsection 9(2), of that Act as amended by this Schedule do not apply to 2016.