Third

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2019

BILL 59

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE

INTERPRETATION ACT

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Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE ANDREW

PARSONS, Q.C.

Minister of Justice

and Public Safety and Attorney General

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the

Interpretation Act to ensure that the definition of "holiday" includes the

holidays set out in the Shops' Closing

Act .

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

INTERPRETATION ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cI-19

as amended

1. (1) Paragraph 27(1)(

l) of the

Interpretation Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(l) "holiday" means

(

i) every Sunday,

(ii) New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day,

Memorial Day or Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day,

Christmas Day and Boxing Day,

(iii) the birthday or the day fixed by proclamation

for the celebration of the birth of the reigning Sovereign,

(iv) a day appointed by

an Act of the Parliament of

Canada or by proclamation of the Governor General or of the Lieutenant-Governor

for day of a general prayer or mourning or day of public rejoicing or thanksgiving

or a public holiday,

(

v) in a particular municipality, other than the

City of St. John's and the Town of Harbour Grace, 1 day in each year, which the

council of that municipality may fix as a public holiday,

(vi) in the City of St. John's, the day in each

year ultimately determined, in the manner prescribed by custom, for the St.

John's Annual Regatta, and

(vii) in the Town of Harbour Grace, the day in

each year ultimately determined, in the manner prescribed by custom, for the

Harbour Grace Annual Regatta;

(2) Section 27 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(1.1) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(l), where a

holiday, other than a holiday referenced in subparagraph (1)(l)(i), falls on a

Sunday the term "holiday" includes the following day.

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