View All - 1965 Acts Section No : Acts & Ordinances HOLIDAYSMarginal Notes1. This Act may be cited as the Holidays Act, No. 17 of 1965, and shall come into operation on such date * as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette. [* 1st January, 1966-Gazette Extraordinary No. 14,591 of 22nd December, 1965. .]2. Declaration regarding Sundays. 3. Declaration regarding Poya Days. 4. Additional public holidays. 5. Additional bank holidays. 6. Public holidays to be dies non and to be kept as holidays. 7. Bank holidays to be kept as close holidays in banks. 8. Power to make Orders restricting the number of public holidays in certain public offices or Government departments. 9. Provisions as to payments, & c., on bank holidays. 10. Declaration of Poya Days. 11. Power to make regulations. 12. Power of Minister to amend, &c, the Schedules to this Act. 13. Power of Minister to declare special public holidays. 14. Power of Minister to declare special bank holidays. 15. Repeal of Chapter 177. 16. Interpretation.