Anzac Day Act 1920

by the Parliament of New Zealand

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New Zealand.

ANALYSIS.

	Title
1.	Short Title.
2.	Anzac Day declared to be a public holiday. Consequential amendment of Schedule of bank holidays. Licensed premises to be closed on Anzac Day. Horse-racing prohibited on Anzac Day.

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1920, No.78

Title

An Act to constitute Anzac Day a National Holiday.

[11th November, 1920.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Anzac Day Act, 1920.

Anzac Day declared to be a public holiday. 2. (1.) In commemoration of the part taken by New Zealand troops in the Great War, and in memory of those who gave their lives for the Empire, the twenty-fifth day of April in each year (being the anniversary of the first landing of English, Australian, and New Zealand troops on Gallipoli) shall be known as Anzac Day, and shall be observed throughout New Zealand as a public holiday.

Consequential amendment of Schedule of bank holidays. (2.) The Schedule to the Public Holidays Act, 1910 (being a Schedule of bank holidays within the meaning of the Banking Act, 1908), is hereby amended by adding thereto the words “Anzac Day.”

Licensed premises to be closed on Anzac Day. (3.) The provisions of section one hundred and eighty-nine of the Licensing Act, 1908, shall hereafter be construed to require the closing of licensed premises on Anzac Day in the same manner as they require the closing of such premises on Christmas Day and Good Friday.

Licensed premises to be closed on Anzac Day. (4.) After the passing of this Act the Minister of Internal Affairs shall not grant a license under the Gaming Act, 1908, to any racing club to use the totalizator at any horse-race meeting proposed to be held on Anzac Day, and shall not grant a license under the Race Meetings Act, 1909, to any racing club to conduct horse-races on Anzac Day.

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