Royal Visit 1952 Special Holiday Act 1951 (WA)

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Holiday.

ROYAL VISIT, 1952, SPECIAL

HOLIDAY.

15° and 16° Geo. VI., No. LVI.

No. 56 of 1951.

AN ACT relating to the Observance of a Special Holiday in honour of the occasion of the Royal Visit in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.

[Assented to 2nd January, 1952.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short 1. This Act may be cited as the Royal Visit, 1952,

Special Holiday Act, 1951.

shortening 2. For the purpose of shortening this Act, the

provision. following expressions, where used in this Act, have

the respective meanings set out in this section

"recognised holiday" means a day appointed

as

a public holiday by the Bank Holidays Act, 1884-1948, or by or pursuant to any other Act or regulation, including the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912-1950, and any award or industrial agreement made pursuant to the provisions of that Act;

a Public Service holiday by the Public

Service Act, 1904-1950;

"special holiday" means the public holiday

provided pursuant to the provisions of this

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Act in honour of the occasion of the Royal Visit to this State proposed to be paid in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.

Special

3. The special holiday shall, subject to the holiday.

provisions of this Act, be observed on such day as the Governor by Proclamation appoints for the purpose.

4. The Governor may appoint a specified day for Appointment

the observance of the special holiday throughout g.=

the whole of the State, or may appoint for each of

such of the various parts of the State as he thinks

fit such specified day for the observance of the

special holiday in each of those parts as in his

opinion will best enable the persons in that part to

observe the occasion.

5. Notwithstanding that the Governor may have Provisions any et

appointed a day for the observance of the special hange

in plans.

holiday, he may by subsequent Proclamation—

(a)	from time to time cancel the appointment of the day and appoint another day to be observed as the special holiday; or
(b)	cancel the appointment of the day abso- lutely;

in order that any change of plans for the Royal Visit may be appropriately met and such subsequent Proclamation shall have effect accordingly.

6. (a) If the special holiday is observed on a day Provisions

which is a recognised holiday, a person who is holidayand

entitled to the recognised holiday shall, subject to holidaylap

the provisions of the next succeeding section, be 5391 mi

entitled to such other day as the Governor declares by Proclamation as a holiday in place of the recog- nised holiday.

(b) Where for the purpose of the last preceding paragraph, the Governor declares a day as a holiday in place of a recognised holiday, he may from time to time by subsequent Proclamation cancel the

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declaration and declare another day as a holiday in place of the recognised holiday, and such subse- quent Proclamation shall have effect accordingly.

Special

In the event of the special holiday being observed in the metropolitan area on the third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, on which day the public holiday and Public Service holiday of Labour Day would otherwise be observed, Labour Day shall by virtue of the provisions of this section be observed throughout the State on the twenty-fourth day of March of that year, notwith- standing the provisions of the Bank Holidays Act, 1884-1948, or those of the Public Service Act, 1904- 1950.

provisions 7.

relating to

Labour Day.

Effect of

(1) Any Act or regulation, or any award or pursuant to the provisions of the Industrial Arbitra- tion Act, 1912-1950, whether or not such Act, regulation, award, or industrial agreement provides for certain specified days or for a certain number of days to be observed or treated as public holidays, or empowers the Governor by Proclamation or otherwise to proclaim, appoint or declare any day as a public holiday, shall be deemed to be amended so as to provide that the special holiday shall be observed or treated as a public holiday without deduction of pay.

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holiday on

other Acts,	industrial agreement for the time being in force
etc.
(2) Any person required by his employer to work on the special holiday shall

(a)	be compensated for such work in accord- ance with the provisions of such Act, regulation, award, or industrial agreement for work on public holidays; or
(b)	in the absence of any such provision, be paid for such work at the rate of double time, or, at the option of the employer, have one day added to his annual leave, or if he works for part only of the special holiday, shall have an equivalent number of hours added to his annual leave.