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No. 17.]
Anzac Day.
[1919.

ANZAC DAY.

10° Geo. V., No. V


No. 17 of 1919

AN ACT to provide for the observance of Anzac Day as a Public Holiday.

[Assented to 28th October, 1919.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Anzac Day Act, 1919.

Anzac Day to be a public holiday. 2. The twenty-fifth day of April (Anzac Day) in every year is hereby appointed and declared a public holiday throughout the State.

Amendment of Schedule to 48 Vic., No. 9, and Section 64 of 1904, No. 41. 3. The words “the twenty-fifth day of April (Anzac Day)” are hereby inserted in the Schedule to the Bank Holidays Act, 1884, and in paragraph (a) of section sixty-four of the Public Service Act, 1904.