PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. Public Holidays

2. Power to appoint special days to be public holidays

3. Power to alter day appointed to be a public holiday

4. Provisions as to acts on public holidays

5. Days to be kept as public holidays when public holidays fall on Fridays to Mondays

6. Provisions as to Government Departments working on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays

7. Short title, etc

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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ACT

An Act to repeal all the State Laws on public holidays and to make provisions for the whole of the Federation for public holidays and other related matters.

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(COMMENCEMENT)              (1^st January 1979)

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1. The days mentioned in the Schedule to this Act shall be kept as public holidays throughout Nigeria.

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