Acts relating to negotiable instruments not compellable to be done on a general holiday. 6. Subject to the provisions of section 14 of the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, it shall not be necessary for any person to make any payment or to do any other act, including noting or protesting, relating to any negotiable instrument on a general holiday, but all obligation to make such payment or to do any such other act shall apply to the next following day not being itself a general holiday.
Power of the Governor in Council to appoint holidays. 7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to appoint any day to be observed as a general holiday in addition to or in substitution for any day mentioned in section 3 and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to such added or substituted day and shall cease to apply to any day for which another has been so substituted.
Process, etc., on holidays.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1901.
8. Subject to the provisions of section 32 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to certain civil procedure, any summons or warrant may be issued, any summons may be served, any warrant or order may be served or executed, and any arrest, search or seizure may be made, on any day, whether a general holiday or not.
Repeal of Ordinances No. 5 of 1912 and No. 1 of 1941. 9. The Holidays Ordinance, 1912, and the Holidays Amendment Ordinance, 1941, are hereby repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 9th day of January, 1947.
D. R. Holmes,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
