Days fixed as public holidays
3 Days fixed as public holidays
Subject to this section, the following days will be public holidays in each year:
1 January (New Year's Day);
26 January (Australia Day);
the second Monday in March (Adelaide Cup
Day);
the Friday publicly observed as Good Friday (Good
Friday);
the day after Good Friday (Easter
Saturday);
the Sunday following Good Friday (Easter
Sunday);
the Monday following Good Friday (Easter
Monday);
25 April (ANZAC Day);
the second Monday in June (the Sovereign's
Birthday);
the first Monday in October (Labour
Day);
25 December (Christmas Day);
26 December (Proclamation Day holiday).
If Christmas Day or New Year's Day falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the following Monday will be a public holiday in addition to that day.
If Proclamation Day holiday falls on a Saturday, Sunday or Monday, the following rules apply:
where it falls on a Saturday, the following Monday will be a public holiday in addition to that day;
where it falls on a Sunday or a Monday, the following Tuesday will be a public holiday in addition to that day.
If Australia Day falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the following
Monday will be a public holiday instead of that day.
The Governor may, by proclamation, declare some other day to be a public holiday in a year instead of a day appointed by this section as a public holiday (and in that case that other day will in that year be substituted as a public holiday for the day appointed by this section).
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