ACT No. IV of 2021 AN ACT to amend the National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act, Cap. 252.

I assent.

(L.S.)

GEORGE VELLA

President

12th February, 2021

ACT No. IV of 2021

AN ACT to amend the National Holidays and other Public Holidays

Act, Cap. 252.

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 follows:-

The short title of this Act is the National Holidays and other Short title.

Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2021, and this Act shall be read and

construed as one with the National Holidays and other Public Holidays Cap. 252.

Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

Immediately after paragraph (b) of article 6 of the principal Amendment of

Act there shall be added the following new paragraph

"(c) with effect from 1st January 2021, when a

national holiday or a public holiday listed in the Schedule

falls on a Saturday or on a Sunday, it shall be deemed to

be a public holiday for the purposes of entitling any

person to a day of vacation leave in addition to the leave

entitlement for that particular year as calculated on the

basic entitlement provided in regulation 8 of the

Organisation of Working Time Regulations;".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 426 of the 9th

February, 2021.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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