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Public Holidays Information

Definition of public holidays by Aglaïa Jewellery

 

Public holidays, or “bank holidays” as they are known in United Kingdom, are spread throughout the year and mark religious, historical and special events. There are eight public holidays in United Kingdom and eleven gazetted public holidays in Singapore. 

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Aglaïa Jewellery follows all public holidays of United Kingdom and Singapore. If any public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday will be considered by Aglaïa Jewellery to be a public holiday if it is not itself already a public holiday. The public holidays for each country are as follow below: (*Holidays shared by both countries are highlighted in Bold)

United Kingdom

 

  • New Year: 1 January

  • Good Friday: (the date changes from year to year)

  • Easter Monday: (the date changes from year to year)

  • Early May bank holiday: First Monday in May

  • Spring bank holiday: Last Monday in May

  • Summer bank holiday: Last Monday in August

  • Christmas: 25 December

  • Boxing Day (St. Stephen’s Day): 26 December

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Bank holidays may be declared in two ways, by:

  • Statute (Statutory holidays) - Holidays specifically listed in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, Schedule

  • Royal proclamation - This has been used for annual bank holidays created since 1971, and is also used to move a bank holiday in a given year, and to create extra one-off bank holidays for special occasions. (The Act does not provide for a bank holiday to be suppressed by royal proclamation without appointing another day in its place).

Singapore

 

  • New Year: 1 January

  • Lunar New Year: 2 days (the dates change from year to year)

  • Good Friday: (the date changes from year to year)

  • Labour Day: 1 May

  • Vesak Day: (the date changes from year to year)

  • National Day: 9 August

  • Deepavali: (the date changes from year to year)

  • Christmas: 25 December

  • Hari Raya Puasa: (the date changes from year to year)

  • Hari Raya Haji: (the date changes from year to year)

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The days observed as general public holidays in Singapore are declared in the schedule to the Holidays Act. These public holidays have been recognised since Singapore's 1968 Employment Act. The president is empowered to declare any day to be observed as a public holiday in addition to or substitution for any day specified in the schedule to the Holidays Act, and may also declare any day in a year to be observed as an additional public holiday when in that year two public holidays fall on the same day.

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