SOLOMON ISLANDS
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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1982
No.2 of 1982

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title and commencement.
2. Transfer of power from Governor-General to Minister.
3. Minister may amend the Schedule.
4. Parliamentary procedure.
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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1982
No.2 of 1982

Passed by the National Parliament this third day of March 1982.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

Festus Fa'amaea
Clerk to the National Parliament

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this 10th day of March 1982.

B Devesi
Governor-General

Date of commencement: First day of April 1982.

AN ACT to amend the Public Holidays Act.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

Short title and commencement.

1. This Act may be cited as the Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 1982 and shall come into effect on the first day of April 1982.

Transfer of power from Governor General to Minister.

2. (1) In the proviso to section 2 of the Public Holidays Act (hereafter referred to as the principal Act) for "Governor General" substitute "Minister".

(2) Section 2(2) of the Principal Act (birthday of Heir to the Throne) is repealed.

(3) In section 6 of the principal Act for "Governor General" substitute "Minister".

Minister may amend the Schedule.

3. After section 6 of the principal Act insert the following new section -

"Power of Minister to amend the Schedule.

6A. The Minister may by order amend the Schedule to this Act."

Parliamentary procedure.

4. After section 7 of the principal Act insert the following new section -

"Exclusion of section 56 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act 1978.

8. Section 56 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act (Parliamentary procedure) shall not apply to subsidiary legislation made under this Act, except that Orders made under section 6A shall be laid before Parliament before they come into effect."