ACT No. X of 1980 AN ACT further to amend the National Day and other Public Holidays Act,1975.

I assent.

(L.S.)

ANTON BUTTIGIEG

President

7th March, 1980

ACT No. X of 1980

AN ACT further to amend the National Day and other Public Holidays

Act,1975.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as fol1ows:-

This Act may be cited as the National Day and other Public

Holidays (Amendment) Act, 1980, and shaH be read and construed as

one with the National Day and other Public Holidays Act, 1975, here­

inafter referred to as "the principal Act".

For section 2 of the principal Act there shaH be substituted

the following

2. (l) The thirty-first day of March of each year shal1

"Jum

i1-Ħelsien

be known as Jum il-Ħelsien and shaH be the National Day of

to be

Malta.

National

Dayof

(2) Jum il-Ħelsien shaH be a public holiday and

Malta.

on that occasion there shaH be flown on all public buildings

the National Flag of Malta.

(3) The Prime Minister shaH give such directions

as he may deem appropriate for the due celebrati on of Jum

il-Ħelsien. ".

For the Schedule to the principal Act there shaH be substituted

the foHowing

A

"SCHEDULE

Section 3 (1)

List of Public Holidays

(in addition to Jum il-Ħelsien and Sundays)

1st January

New Year's Day

Good Friday

1st May

May Day

15th August

Feast of the Assumption

13th December

Republic Day

25th Decernber

Christmas Day".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 365 of the 4th March, 1980.

C. AGIUS

Speaker

C. MIFSUD

Clerk to the House of Representatives

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