Public Holidays Act

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Public holidays.

1. Power to appoint special days to be public holidays.
2. Power to alter day appointed to be a public holiday.
3. Provisions as to acts on public holidays.
4. Days to be kept as public holidays when public holidays fall on Fridays to Mondays.
5. Provisions as to government departments working on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
6. Short title.

SCHEDULE

An Act to repeal all the State Laws on public holidays and to make provisions for the whole of the Federation for public holidays and other related matters.

[1979 No. 31

[1 st January, 19791

[Cornmencernent.]

1. Public holidays

The days mentioned in the Schedule to this Act shall be kept as public holidays throughout Nigeria.

[Schedule.]

1. Power to appoint special days to be public holidays

1 Schedule.]

1. Power to alter day appointed to be a public holiday

The Minister for Internal affairs (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) may by public notice, when it appears to him in any special case that in any year it is inexpedient
that a day appointed by section 1 of this Act to be kept as a public holiday should be kept as a public holiday, declare that such day shall not be kept as a public holiday and may
appoint such other day as he may think fit to be kept as a public holiday instead of such day, and thereupon the day appointed shall be substituted for the day in such year ap-
pointed by this Act:

Provided that where a day declared to be kept as a public holiday for the celebration of a religious festival is found not to be the actual day on which the adherents of the
religion concerned perform the religious festival, it shall be lawful for such adherents to take time off work on that actual day for the celebration of such festival.