Western Australia
Public and Bank Holidays Amendment Act 2004
CONTENTS
1. Short title 1
2. Commencement 2
3. The Act amended 2
4. Section 6 replaced 2
6. Saturdays to be bank holidays 2
5. Section 10 amended 2
Western Australia
Public and Bank Holidays Amendment Act 2004
No. 32 of 2004
An Act to amend the Public and Bank Holidays Act 1972.
[Assented to 14 October 2004]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Public and Bank Holidays Amendment Act 2004.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3. The Act amended
The amendments in this Act are to the Public and Bank Holidays Act 1972*.
[* Reprinted as at 4 January 2002.
For subsequent amendments see Western Australian Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 1, p. 309.]
4. Section 6 replaced
Section 6 is repealed and the following section is inserted instead —
“
6. Saturdays to be bank holidays
Saturday shall be a bank holiday throughout the State.
”.
5. Section 10 amended
(1) Section 10(1) is amended by deleting “be closed” and inserting instead —
“ close their premises to the public ”.
(2) Section 10(2) is repealed and the following subsection is inserted instead —
“
(2) A bank in the State is not required to close its premises to the public on a Saturday, if that Saturday —
(a) is a bank holiday by virtue of section 6; and
(b) is not a bank holiday or public holiday under any other section.
”.
