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This article is about public holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. For the bank holiday declared in the USA during the Great Depression, see Emergency Banking Act. For the film, see Bank Holiday (film).

A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth countries, other European countries, and a colloquialism for a public holiday in Ireland. There is no automatic right to time off on these days, although banks close and the majority of the working population is granted time off work or extra pay for working on these days, depending on their contract.^[1] The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, but today the term is colloquially used for Good Friday and Christmas Day which were already public holidays under common law and therefore not official bank holidays in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.^[2]

History

Until 1834, the Bank of England observed about 33 saints’ days and religious festivals as holidays, but in that year this was reduced to four: 1 May (May Day), 1 November (All Saints’ Day), Good Friday and Christmas Day. In 1871, the first legislation relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker Sir John Lubbock introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the table below.^[3] Under the Act, no person was compelled to make any payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to do or make on Christmas Day or Good Friday, and the making of a payment or the doing of an act on the following day was equivalent to doing it on the holiday.^[4] The English people were so thankful that some called the first Bank Holidays St Lubbock’s Days for a while.^[5] Scotland was treated separately because of its separate traditions: for example, New Year is a more important holiday there.^{[citation needed]}

The Act did not include Good Friday and Christmas Day as bank holidays in England, Wales, or Ireland because they were already recognised as common law holidays: they had been customary holidays since before records began.^[3]

In 1903, the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act added 17 March, Saint Patrick’s Day, as a bank holiday for Ireland only.^[6] New Year’s Day did not become a bank holiday in England until 1 January 1974.

In the United Kingdom

Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971

Commencing in 1965, on an experimental basis, the August Bank Holiday weekend was observed at the end of August «to give a lead in extending British holidays over a longer summer period».^[7] Each year’s date was announced in Parliament on an ad-hoc basis, to the despair of the calendar and diary publishing trade.^[8] The rule seems to have been to select the weekend of the last Saturday in August, so that in 1968^[9] and 1969^[10] Bank Holiday Monday actually fell in September.

A century after the 1871 Act, the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, which currently regulates bank holidays in the UK, was passed.^[11] The majority of the current bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act: however New Year’s Day and May Day were not introduced throughout the whole of the UK until 1974 and 1978 respectively.^[12] The date of the August bank holiday was changed from the first Monday in August to the last Monday in August, and the Whitsun bank holiday (Whit Monday) was replaced by the Late Spring Bank Holiday, fixed as the last Monday in May.^[13] In 1978 the first Monday in May in the rest of the UK, and the final Monday of May in Scotland, were designated as bank holidays.^[14]

In January 2007, the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 was given royal assent, making 30 November (or the nearest Monday if a weekend) a bank holiday in Scotland.^[15]

Royal proclamation

Under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, bank holidays are proclaimed each year by the legal device of a royal proclamation. Royal proclamation is also used to move bank holidays that would otherwise fall on a weekend. In this way, public holidays are not ‘lost’ in years when they coincide with weekends. These deferred bank holiday days are termed a ‘bank holiday in lieu’ of the typical anniversary date. In the legislation they are known as ‘substitute days’. The movement of the St Andrew’s Day Scottish holiday to the nearest Monday when 30 November is a weekend day is statutory and does not require a proclamation.

In Scotland

Main article: Public and bank holidays in Scotland

A number of differences apply in Scotland relative to the rest of the United Kingdom. For example, Easter Monday is not a bank holiday. Also, although they share the same name, the Summer Bank Holiday falls on the first Monday of August in Scotland, as opposed to the last Monday in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Despite this, it is custom and practice to follow the rest of the UK and banks close on the last Monday and not the first.

Bank holidays do not, however, assume the same importance in Scotland as they do elsewhere. Whereas they have effectively become public holidays elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in Scotland there remains a tradition of public holidays based on local tradition and determined by local authorities (for example, the Glasgow Fair and the Dundee Fortnight). In 1996, Scottish banks made the business decision to harmonise their own holidays with the rest of the United Kingdom, with the result that ‘bank holidays’ in Scotland are neither public holidays nor the days on which banks are closed.

The number of holidays in the UK is relatively small compared to many other European countries. However, direct comparison is inaccurate since the ‘substitute day’ scheme of deferment does not apply in most European countries, where holidays that coincide with a weekend (29% of fixed-date holidays) are ‘lost’. In fact, the average number of non-weekend holidays in such countries is only marginally higher (and in some cases lower) than the UK. Worth mentioning is that public holidays in Europe which fall on Thursday or Tuesday typically become «puente» or «bridge» four-day or even six-day extended holiday weekends as people tend to use one or two days from their holiday entitlement to take off Monday and/or Friday.

There have been calls for more bank holidays.^[16] Among the most notable dates absent from the existing list are the feast days of patron saints; 23 April (St George’s Day and widely regarded^[17] as the birthday of William Shakespeare) in England and 1 March (St David’s Day) in Wales are not currently recognised. 17 March (St Patrick’s Day) is a public holiday in Northern Ireland and, since 2008, 30 November (St Andrew’s Day) is a bank holiday in Scotland. St Piran’s Day (patron saint of Cornwall) on 5 March is already given as an unofficial day off to many government and other workers in the county, and there are renewed calls for the government to recognise this as an official bank holiday there.^[18][19]

Proposed move of May Day Bank Holiday (England and Wales)

After the election of the Coalition Government in May 2010, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport launched a pre-consultation in 2011 which included the suggestion of moving the May Day Bank Holiday to October, to be a «UK Day» or «Trafalgar Day» (21 October) or to St David’s Day and St George’s Day.^[20]

It is suggested that a move from the May bank holiday to a St Piran’s Day bank holiday in Cornwall, on 5 March, would benefit the Cornish economy by £20-35 million.^[21]

1968 Emergency Bank Holiday

During the sterling crisis of 1968, Prime Minister Harold Wilson convened a meeting of the privy council in the early hours of 14 March to declare 15 March a non-statutory bank holiday. This allowed the UK government to close the London gold market in order to stem the losses being suffered by the British pound.^[22] It was this meeting that triggered the resignation of Foreign Secretary George Brown.

List of current holidays in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Isle of Man

See also: Public holidays in the United Kingdom, Public holidays in the Republic of Ireland, and Public holidays in the Isle of Man

File:Wedding cake, Buckingham palace ‘poppy drop’ during the 50th year VE — VJ day celebrations. MOD 45137359.jpg

In the past, additional one-off bank holidays have included: (i) Wednesday 14 November 1973, to celebrate the Wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, (ii) Tuesday 7 June 1977, to celebrate The Queen’s Silver Jubilee, (iii) Wednesday 29 July 1981 to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral,
^[27] (iv) Friday 31 December 1999 to enable people to prepare for the festivities to mark the arrival of the new millennium.^{[decimal 6]} (v) Friday, 29 April 2011, to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Notes

In Australia

See also: Public holidays in Australia § Other holidays

The state of Victoria defines all statutory holidays, their substitutes, and Saturdays as «bank holidays»,^[28] though public holidays are not generally known as «bank holidays» in Australia. There are also two specific public holidays declared for certain types of people which are officially named «Bank Holiday»:

• New South Wales has a «Bank Holiday» on the first Monday in August — for bank employees only.
• Tasmania has a «Bank Holiday» on Easter Tuesday — for bank and government employees only.

In Hong Kong

Main article: Public holidays in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, the term «bank holiday» is used colloquially to refer to public holidays, since banks are normally closed on these days. Hong Kong has maintained a distinction between public holidays and statutory holidays; the number of days for the latter is fewer.

In India

In India, 15 of the public holidays are bank holidays.

Main article: Bank holidays in India

In Ireland

Main article: Public holidays in the Republic of Ireland

In Ireland, «bank holiday» is a colloquial term, sometimes used incorrectly for what are officially «public holidays». A bank holiday in Ireland are only days in which Bank employees are off, e.g. Good Friday is a Bank Holiday, but not a Public Holiday.

See also

• List of holidays by country

References

External links

• August Bank Holiday 2016
• Template:UK-LEG
• Annual leave and public holidays (Ireland)
• Calendar of all legal Public and Bank Holidays worldwide, until 2050
• FirstCaribbean International Bank: Bank Holidays in the Caribbean region
• Bank Holidays 2016 in India
• List of Bank Holidays and other significant days for the UK
• Bank Holiday dates for the UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland

This article is about public holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. For the bank holiday declared in the USA during the Great Depression, see Emergency Banking Act. For the film, see Bank Holiday (film).

A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth countries, other European countries, and a colloquialism for a public holiday in Ireland. There is no automatic right to time off on these days, although banks close and the majority of the working population is granted time off work or extra pay for working on these days, depending on their contract.^[1] The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, but today the term is colloquially used for Good Friday and Christmas Day which were already public holidays under common law and therefore not official bank holidays in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.^[2]

History

Until 1834, the Bank of England observed about 33 saints’ days and religious festivals as holidays, but in that year this was reduced to four: 1 May (May Day), 1 November (All Saints’ Day), Good Friday and Christmas Day. In 1871, the first legislation relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker Sir John Lubbock introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the table below.^[3] Under the Act, no person was compelled to make any payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to do or make on Christmas Day or Good Friday, and the making of a payment or the doing of an act on the following day was equivalent to doing it on the holiday.^[4] The English people were so thankful that some called the first Bank Holidays St Lubbock’s Days for a while.^[5] Scotland was treated separately because of its separate traditions: for example, New Year is a more important holiday there.^{[citation needed]}

The Act did not include Good Friday and Christmas Day as bank holidays in England, Wales, or Ireland because they were already recognised as common law holidays: they had been customary holidays since before records began.^[3]

In 1903, the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act added 17 March, Saint Patrick’s Day, as a bank holiday for Ireland only.^[6] New Year’s Day did not become a bank holiday in England until 1 January 1974.

In the United Kingdom

Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971

Commencing in 1965, on an experimental basis, the August Bank Holiday weekend was observed at the end of August «to give a lead in extending British holidays over a longer summer period».^[7] Each year’s date was announced in Parliament on an ad-hoc basis, to the despair of the calendar and diary publishing trade.^[8] The rule seems to have been to select the weekend of the last Saturday in August, so that in 1968^[9] and 1969^[10] Bank Holiday Monday actually fell in September.

A century after the 1871 Act, the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, which currently regulates bank holidays in the UK, was passed.^[11] The majority of the current bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act: however New Year’s Day and May Day were not introduced throughout the whole of the UK until 1974 and 1978 respectively.^[12] The date of the August bank holiday was changed from the first Monday in August to the last Monday in August, and the Whitsun bank holiday (Whit Monday) was replaced by the Late Spring Bank Holiday, fixed as the last Monday in May.^[13] In 1978 the first Monday in May in the rest of the UK, and the final Monday of May in Scotland, were designated as bank holidays.^[14]

In January 2007, the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 was given royal assent, making 30 November (or the nearest Monday if a weekend) a bank holiday in Scotland.^[15]

Royal proclamation

Under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, bank holidays are proclaimed each year by the legal device of a royal proclamation. Royal proclamation is also used to move bank holidays that would otherwise fall on a weekend. In this way, public holidays are not ‘lost’ in years when they coincide with weekends. These deferred bank holiday days are termed a ‘bank holiday in lieu’ of the typical anniversary date. In the legislation they are known as ‘substitute days’. The movement of the St Andrew’s Day Scottish holiday to the nearest Monday when 30 November is a weekend day is statutory and does not require a proclamation.

In Scotland

Main article: Public and bank holidays in Scotland

A number of differences apply in Scotland relative to the rest of the United Kingdom. For example, Easter Monday is not a bank holiday. Also, although they share the same name, the Summer Bank Holiday falls on the first Monday of August in Scotland, as opposed to the last Monday in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Despite this, it is custom and practice to follow the rest of the UK and banks close on the last Monday and not the first.

Bank holidays do not, however, assume the same importance in Scotland as they do elsewhere. Whereas they have effectively become public holidays elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in Scotland there remains a tradition of public holidays based on local tradition and determined by local authorities (for example, the Glasgow Fair and the Dundee Fortnight). In 1996, Scottish banks made the business decision to harmonise their own holidays with the rest of the United Kingdom, with the result that ‘bank holidays’ in Scotland are neither public holidays nor the days on which banks are closed.

The number of holidays in the UK is relatively small compared to many other European countries. However, direct comparison is inaccurate since the ‘substitute day’ scheme of deferment does not apply in most European countries, where holidays that coincide with a weekend (29% of fixed-date holidays) are ‘lost’. In fact, the average number of non-weekend holidays in such countries is only marginally higher (and in some cases lower) than the UK. Worth mentioning is that public holidays in Europe which fall on Thursday or Tuesday typically become «puente» or «bridge» four-day or even six-day extended holiday weekends as people tend to use one or two days from their holiday entitlement to take off Monday and/or Friday.

There have been calls for more bank holidays.^[16] Among the most notable dates absent from the existing list are the feast days of patron saints; 23 April (St George’s Day and widely regarded^[17] as the birthday of William Shakespeare) in England and 1 March (St David’s Day) in Wales are not currently recognised. 17 March (St Patrick’s Day) is a public holiday in Northern Ireland and, since 2008, 30 November (St Andrew’s Day) is a bank holiday in Scotland. St Piran’s Day (patron saint of Cornwall) on 5 March is already given as an unofficial day off to many government and other workers in the county, and there are renewed calls for the government to recognise this as an official bank holiday there.^[18][19]

Proposed move of May Day Bank Holiday (England and Wales)

After the election of the Coalition Government in May 2010, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport launched a pre-consultation in 2011 which included the suggestion of moving the May Day Bank Holiday to October, to be a «UK Day» or «Trafalgar Day» (21 October) or to St David’s Day and St George’s Day.^[20]

It is suggested that a move from the May bank holiday to a St Piran’s Day bank holiday in Cornwall, on 5 March, would benefit the Cornish economy by £20-35 million.^[21]

1968 Emergency Bank Holiday

During the sterling crisis of 1968, Prime Minister Harold Wilson convened a meeting of the privy council in the early hours of 14 March to declare 15 March a non-statutory bank holiday. This allowed the UK government to close the London gold market in order to stem the losses being suffered by the British pound.^[22] It was this meeting that triggered the resignation of Foreign Secretary George Brown.

List of current holidays in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Isle of Man

See also: Public holidays in the United Kingdom, Public holidays in the Republic of Ireland, and Public holidays in the Isle of Man

File:Wedding cake, Buckingham palace ‘poppy drop’ during the 50th year VE — VJ day celebrations. MOD 45137359.jpg

In the past, additional one-off bank holidays have included: (i) Wednesday 14 November 1973, to celebrate the Wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, (ii) Tuesday 7 June 1977, to celebrate The Queen’s Silver Jubilee, (iii) Wednesday 29 July 1981 to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral,
^[27] (iv) Friday 31 December 1999 to enable people to prepare for the festivities to mark the arrival of the new millennium.^{[decimal 6]} (v) Friday, 29 April 2011, to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Notes

In Australia

See also: Public holidays in Australia § Other holidays

The state of Victoria defines all statutory holidays, their substitutes, and Saturdays as «bank holidays»,^[28] though public holidays are not generally known as «bank holidays» in Australia. There are also two specific public holidays declared for certain types of people which are officially named «Bank Holiday»:

• New South Wales has a «Bank Holiday» on the first Monday in August — for bank employees only.
• Tasmania has a «Bank Holiday» on Easter Tuesday — for bank and government employees only.

In Hong Kong

Main article: Public holidays in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, the term «bank holiday» is used colloquially to refer to public holidays, since banks are normally closed on these days. Hong Kong has maintained a distinction between public holidays and statutory holidays; the number of days for the latter is fewer.

In India

In India, 15 of the public holidays are bank holidays.

Main article: Bank holidays in India

In Ireland

Main article: Public holidays in the Republic of Ireland

In Ireland, «bank holiday» is a colloquial term, sometimes used incorrectly for what are officially «public holidays». A bank holiday in Ireland are only days in which Bank employees are off, e.g. Good Friday is a Bank Holiday, but not a Public Holiday.

See also

• List of holidays by country

References

External links

• August Bank Holiday 2016
• Template:UK-LEG
• Annual leave and public holidays (Ireland)
• Calendar of all legal Public and Bank Holidays worldwide, until 2050
• FirstCaribbean International Bank: Bank Holidays in the Caribbean region
• Bank Holidays 2016 in India
• List of Bank Holidays and other significant days for the UK
• Bank Holiday dates for the UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland

В Великобритании утверждено несколько официальных выходных, которые называются «Bank Holidays». Сегодня их количество в Англии, Уэльсе и Шотландии составляет восемь дней, а в Северной Ирландии – целых десять! Откуда же пришла к британцам традиция «делать паузу» в напряжённом рабочем графике?

Изучение английского языка – не просто запоминание грамматических конструкций или новой лексики. Это полное погружение в культурную жизнь страны, а также знакомство с её историей и обычаями, в том числе и с различными национальными праздниками.

Британцы, как и жители других государств, очень любят отдыхать. Bank Holidays или Банковские каникулы – общегражданские выходные, приходящиеся на понедельники в начале и конце мая, а также на понедельник в начале или конце августа (в зависимости от региона). Они называются «Early May Bank Holiday» (Первомайские банковские каникулы), «Spring Bank Holiday» (Весенний праздник) и «Summer Bank Holiday» (Летние Банковские каникулы). Это выходные дни, введённые в дополнение к традиционным праздникам, существующим исстари – «Common Law Holidays» (например, Рождество или Пасха). Сегодня в обычной разговорной речи не только простые британцы, но и Правительство страны часто называют Банковскими каникулами все официальные нерабочие дни (Public holidays). Если обратиться к расписанию таких каникул в Англии или Уэльсе, то можно заметить одну особенность – большинство выходных дней не имеет конкретной даты, поскольку привязано лишь к дню недели — определённому понедельнику.

Из истории

Когда-то известный политик и потомственный банкир Джон Лаббок, ставший членом парламента во второй половине 19 века, провозгласил в своей политической программе необходимость введения ещё одного дня отдыха для представителей рабочего класса. Благодаря первым банковским выходным жители Англии, Уэльса и Ирландии отдыхали четыре дня, а население Шотландии – целых пять. В ту эпоху, если банки закрывались, то это автоматически означало полное прекращение всей деловой активности в стране. Спустя сто лет было принято дополнение – Акт о Банковских каникулах (Banking and Financial Dealings Act), в котором отразились изменения по нерабочим дням. Например, последний майский понедельник и августовский понедельник официально признали праздничными. Ввиду различий национальной истории четырёх областей Великобритании, государственные выходные в этих регионах не всегда пересекаются.

В чём же суть Bank holidays?

Сегодня Банковские каникулы существуют не только в Британии, но и в других странах. Как и два века назад,  банки в эти дни закрыты, а большинство граждан наслаждается долгожданным отдыхом в кругу семьи или друзей. Желающие потрудиться получают оплату вдвое либо даже втрое выше обычного. Многие магазины и рестораны сознательно оставляют открытыми ввиду большого наплыва посетителей, которые с удовольствием занимаются шоппингом или хотят встретить праздник весёлой компанией в местном пабе. Не покидают свой пост аварийно-спасательные службы, а также полиция.

Многие британцы отмечают Bank holidays участием в народных гуляньях. На протяжении нескольких веков среди наиболее известных и популярных остаются зажигательные танцы вокруг украшенного разноцветными лентами Майского дерева – символа земледелия и плодородия. Во многих посёлках мужчины рубят деревья и устанавливают на центральных площадях деревянные столбы в качестве Майского дерева. В старину вокруг такого необычного сооружения собиралась вся община. Повсюду устраивались весёлые состязания, например, кто быстрее поймает измазанного в грязи поросёнка. Согласно одной из средневековых легенд, во время этого ритуала, сопровождавшегося популярной в те времена стрельбой из лука, был когда-то схвачен защитник нищих Робин Гуд. Ещё один занимательный весенний обычай – красочный танцевальный фестиваль «Morris dancing«. Впервые упоминание об этом необычном танце появилось в 15 веке, а название обусловлено тем, что танцоры обычно гримируют лица чёрным цветом. Считается, что они изображают мавров (moors). Сейчас в Британии насчитывают 6 видов подобных танцев, и 6 разных школ, названных в честь региона их происхождения. По традиции танцы сопровождает специфическая мелодия.  Хореография построена на ритмических шагах. Участники выступают с белоснежными носовыми платками, мечами или палками из дерева, а также прикрепляют к ногам звонкие бубенцы.

Можно ещё долго рассказывать о том, как британцы отдыхают во время каникул, или отмечают традиционные праздники, такие как Пасха. Посетите эту удивительную страну и примите непосредственное участие в каком-либо торжестве.

БАНКОВСКИЕ ПРАЗДНИКИ

Полезное

Первомайских праздников в Великобритании целых три: Early May Bank Holiday, May Day и Labour Day. И все три – совершенно разные. Два последних празднуются всегда 1 мая. А Early May Bank Holiday проходит в первый понедельник мая, на какое бы число он ни выпал.

May Day — это что-то вроде нашей Масленицы: он официально выходным не считается. Широко не отмечается, но для детей в этот день иногда устраивают импровизированные фольклорные фестивали с танцами вокруг шеста (‘may pole’). 

Labour Day (наш «День труда») в Великобритании сам по себе тоже не выходной, хотя широко празднуется социалистами. В Лондоне, например, они ежегодно 1 мая проводят свой парад. Выходным является только сам по себе «банковский выходной».

Тогда почему дается выходной?

Выходным днем для всех жителей страны является только первый понедельник мая. Лишнему нерабочему дню мы обязаны Джону Лаббоку, потомственному банкиру, который стал членом парламента в 1870 году. В своей политической программе он провозглашал необходимость дополнительных выходных и сокращение рабочих часов для рабочего класса. Удивительно, но обещаниями дело не ограничилось: закон, известный как Bank Holidays Act 1871, действительно приняли.

Первые «банковские выходные» появились в 1871 году. На тот момент их было четыре: Easter Monday, Whit Monday, First Monday in August, Boxing Day (или St Stephen’s Day в Ирландии). В Шотландии был еще и пятый – там не работали в New Year’s Day.

Сегодня термин «bank holidays» неофициально применяется и к двум другим выходным дням: Рождеству (Christmas Day) и Страстной пятнице (Good Friday). Но формально называть их “банковскими” неправильно. Они — common law holidays. Эти дни были выходными и до 1871 года.

Почему «банковские»?

Закон Джона Лаббока так и назывался – Bank Holidays Act 1871. Но со временем вместе с банковскими служащими стали отдыхать и служащие государственных учреждений, и другие работники, а название осталось. Традиция, сэр. И не слушайте тех, кто говорит, что работники из других сфер не могли работать в «банковский выходной» из-за того, что  были закрыты банки. Уж один-то день без посещения банка пережить может каждый.

Сколько всего регулярных банковских выходных?

Спустя ровно сто лет поле первого закона, в 1971 году, был принят новый – Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 – который действует до сих пор. С течением времени туда вносились поправки, и сегодня количество официальных праздников в Англии и Уэльсе насчитывает 8, в Шотландии – 9, в Северной Ирландии – 10.

Почему у кого-то выходных больше, а у кого-то меньше?

Так сколько нам еще отдыхать?

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Официальные праздники, отмечаемые в Великобритании, во время которых банки закрыты. Это-Новый год, Пасха, Майский день (первый понедельник мая), Банковский праздник весны (последний понедельник мая). Августовский банковский праздник (последний понедельник августа) и Второй день Рождества. В Шотландии вместо Пасхи банки отмечают 2 января, а Августовский праздник перенесен на первый понедельник августа. В Северной Ирландии дополнительно отмечается День Святого Патрика (17 марта). На Нормандских островах празднуют День освобождения (9 мая). Банковские праздники не отличаются от воскресных дней в том смысле, что оплата векселей (bills of exchange), срок истечения которых приходится на банковский праздник, откладывается до следующего рабочего дня, а из числа льготных дней (days of grace) они исключаются. Страстная пятница и Рождество также являются официальными выходными днями, однако платежи (в том числе по векселям), срок которых выпадает на эти дни, должны производиться днем раньше. Если банковский праздник приходится на воскресенье, он переносится на следующий день.

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