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Contents 1 Link to public holidays 2 Australian Bank Holiday 3 May Day bank holiday move 1995 4 Republic of Ireland 5 bank holiday 6 Boxing Day falling after 26th December 7 New Years Day Holiday 8 Title 9 But why "bank holiday"?

[edit] Link to public holidays

The USA equivalent is a Federal Holiday.

Removing US-centrism. This article is about the UK. The US has nothing to do with it. -- Tarquin 16:52 24 May 2003 (UTC)

But isn't it nice to know what the equivalent concepts in other countries are? Cross-linking between articles on different countries' versions of the same things is good, because it enables one to compare and contrast how they do things. -- Oliver P. 17:00 24 May 2003 (UTC)

I am a Brit, and I put in the link to Federal Holiday. I had just edited that article, and linked back to the UK equivalent from there as well. I am the first to castigate US-centrism, but they can't be blamed for this. jimfbleak 17:29 24 May 2003 (UTC)

ah. But then we'd have to link to a HUGE list of equivalents, unless there are some which are particularly similar. We link up to public holiday, no? sorry for paranoia! ;-) -- Tarquin 17:41 24 May 2003 (UTC)

OK, sorry for snappiness, feel free to revert my revert. jimfbleak 17:48 24 May 2003 (UTC)

In the US, the term "bank holiday" sometimes refers to the practice during the Great Depression of forcing banks to close to prevent the rapid withdrawal of all funds from a bank, which would have led to bank insolvency of course. Thus bank holidays were used to slow down panic attacks. -- Myria 22:09, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

the "Bank Holiday" of 1933 that you are refering to created a new type of banking in the united States of America, look in Blacks Law Dictionary Fourth edition, member banks of the Federal Reserve System can only conduct banking business during an emergency declaired by the President. Are the banks open? Yes, and we are still under that national emergency declaired by FDR. The Tradeing with the Enemy Act of 1917 was also ammended by FDR to include citizens of the United States as the enemy's. January 26, 2005

Many people call the first May bank Holiday "May Day", shouldn´t that go in the article? --Villamota 13:18, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

The mention of US bank holidays is relevant since there is a such a term in the united states, but with a rather different meaning. It would be possible to split this article into "Bank Holiday (US)" and "Bank Holiday (UK)" (with the latter receiving the redirect from Bank Holiday), but there isn't enough info for a whole US article at the moment. I've made the US reference into a footnote as is used on other articles where a term has a secondary minor but relevant meaning. Is this reasonable? -- Tyler 01:19, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I hadn't deleted the US paragraph, but moved it under a heading entitled "US usage". Your method seems fine, though. All the best Smileyrepublic 19:41, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Bank Holiday

Anyone know anything about the Australian Bank Holiday? It seems to fall on the first Monday of August based on 2005 - 2007, but I can find no definitive evidence anywhere... --postglock 05:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

As far as I can ascertain, the term "bank holiday" in Australia refers to a local holiday (on which banks are required to close in a defined district). The only "state"-wide Bank Holiday with that name is the Australian Capital Territory's first Monday in August holiday. New South Wales also has a "Bank Holiday" on the same date but it does not apply state-wide, and there are a number of districts in NSW with their own local holidays under the Banks and Bank Holidays Act 1912. Queensland also has local holidays called "bank holidays" (but are not "public holidays" as legally defined). Is all or any of this worth mentioning in the article, do you think? -- Picapica 9 July 2005 12:14 (UTC)

[edit] May Day bank holiday move 1995

Quote: Recent practice by Conservative governments has been for the May Bank Holiday to be on 8 May in years where it would otherwise fall on 1 May, presumably out of a desire to avoid the socialist connotations of International Workers' Day. This last happened in 1995.

This only happened in 1995. While it is true that the May Day holiday is not popular with many sections of the Conservative Party (very likely for the reasons mentioned above), this holiday has fallen on a Monday only twice under Conservative governments since its introduction in 1978: in 1989 and 1995. In 1989 it was celebrated on 1 May, the first Monday. In 1995 it was moved for one year to the second Monday, 8 May, "to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE-Day". -- Picapica 14:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Republic of Ireland

I've aded columns for Enfland and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The table makes mention of the ROI, but I don't have access to definative data about this. Another column would be appropriate. Rich Farmbrough 18:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] bank holiday

does anyone know why a bank holiday is on a monday and not a friday?

- For want of a better answer, if they were on Fridays, you'd be asking the opposite question.

[edit] Boxing Day falling after 26th December

The article says that Boxing Day could, strictly speaking, be on either 26th or 27th of December, because it's the first weekday following Christmas, citing the example of a Saturday Chrismtas bumping Boxing Day to Monday.

But if Christmas Day is on a Friday, Monday will still be the next weekday, making Boxing Day the 28th of December. If someone can confirm that, could they update the article?

It's the older definition of weekday as 'any day except Sunday'. Boxing Day automatically then occurs on the 27th, and is not a 'holiday in lieu of' (the day 'in lieu of Christmas' is therefor on the Tuesday as the next available non-statutory day). If the 26th is a Saturday then 'Boxing Day' is that day, and the 'holiday in lieu of' occurs on the Monday.

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[edit] New Years Day Holiday

In England and Wales, if 1 January falls at the weekend and the bank holiday is taken on the following Monday, is the 1 January a public holiday? My assumption is that it is not. Can anybody confirm this? Is the answer the same in Scotland - in respect of both 1 and 2 January?

NB. At Christmas, I understand that when the 25th and/or 26th occur at the weekend and the bank holidays are taken on the 26th, 27th or 28th (as appropriate), the 25th and/or 26th are public holidays.

This question is asked in respect of the enforcement of parking regulation where the relevant traffic order will control whether the regulations apply on bank holidays, which by virtue of O'Neill v George (1968) SJ 128 are taken as including any public holiday.

[edit] Title

Since this article is so old (2002), I'm not going to do anything without seeing what others think, but should the title not be Bank holiday? (note the lower-case H). --Storkk 12:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

And can anybody answer the previous question (from me)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.85.7.12 (talk • contribs).

[edit] But why "bank holiday"?

"Bank holidays are so called because they are days upon which banks are shut and therefore (traditionally) no other businesses could operate..." I'm still not really clear about this, as the generic terms used here in Australia are "public holiday" and "school holiday". Are there holidays in the UK -- other than school holidays -- on which banks are open? Grant | Talk 15:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)