Holidays Act 2003

44 Days that are public holidays

• (1) The following days are public holidays:

  • (a) Christmas Day:

  • (b) Boxing Day:

  • (c) New Year’s Day:

  • (d) 2 January:

  • (e) Waitangi Day:

  • (f) Good Friday:

  • (g) Easter Monday:

  • (h) ANZAC Day:

  • (i) the birthday of the reigning Sovereign (observed on the first Monday in June):

  • (j) Labour Day (being the fourth Monday in October):

  • (k) the day of the anniversary of a province or the day locally observed as that day.

  (2) [Repealed]

  (3) [Repealed]

  (4) If 2 or more of the public holidays specified in subsection (1) fall on the same day, the public holidays must, for the purposes of this subpart, be treated as 1 day.

  Compare: 1981 No 15 s 7A(2)

  Section 44(2): repealed, on 30 September 2008, by section 7 of the Holidays (Transfer of Public Holidays) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 103).

  Section 44(3): repealed, on 30 September 2008, by section 7 of the Holidays (Transfer of Public Holidays) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 103).