AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Holidays (Amendment) Act 1997
No. 2 of 1997
	
An Act to amend the Holidays Act 1958
[Notified in ACT Gazette S54: 28 February 1997]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Holidays (Amendment) Act 1997.
Commencement
2.  This Act commences on 28 February 1997.
Principal Act
3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Holidays Act 1958.1
Addition
4.  After section 4 of the Principal Act the following section and Schedule are added:
Union Picnic Day
“5.  In any year, the first Monday in March shall be observed as a holiday in the Territory by employees whose terms and conditions of employment are governed by an award specified in the Schedule.

	SCHEDULE	Section 5
Awards
Australian Workers’ Union Construction on Site and Civil Engineering (ACT) Award 1981
Australian Workers’ Union Miscellaneous Workers (ACT) Award 1991
Bakers Consolidated (ACT) Award 1985
Bread Sales Personnel (ACT) Award 1982
Building and Construction Industry (ACT) Award 1991
Business Equipment Industry (Technical Service) Award 1978
Butchers’ Carters (ACT) Award 1982
Caretakers, Cleaners and Lift Drivers (ACT) Award 1982
Chemists (ACT) Award 1994
Child Care Industry (ACT) Award 1992
Cleaning (Building and Property Service) Award 1996
Clerks (ACT) Award 1985
Clothing Trades Award 1982
Commercial Travellers (ACT) Consolidated Award 1994
Community and Aged Services (ACT) Award 1995
Community Pharmacy (Public Holidays) Award 1995
Community Services (Home Care) (ACT) Award 1988
Concrete Products Factories (ACT) Award 1970
Country Printing Award 1959
Draughtsmen’s, Planners and Technical Officers (ACT) Award 1982
Dry Cleaning Industry Award 1966
Electrical Contracting Industry Award 1992
Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s (ACT) Award 1982
Family Day Care (ACT) Award 1996
Felt Hatting Consolidated Award 1993
Footwear—Manufacturing and Components Industries Award 1979
Furnishing Trades (ACT) Award 1983
Hairdressing and Beauty Industry (ACT) Award 1985
Health Services Union of Australia (ACT Health and Community Services) Consolidated Award 1993
Hospital Employees (Nursing Staff) (ACT) Award 1980
Independent Schools and Colleges (Domestic and Maintenance Staff) (ACT) Award 1993
Laundry Employees (ACT) Award 1966
Liquor and Allied Industries Catering, Cafe, Restaurant, etc. (ACT) Award 1995
Liquor and Allied Industries, Hotels, Hostels, Clubs and Boarding Establishments etc. (ACT) Award 1992
Liquor Trades Hotels (ACT) Award 1996
Metal Trades (ACT) Award 1982
Milk Treatment and Distribution Employees (ACT) Award 1967
Mobile Crane Hiring Award 1990
National Metal and Engineering On site Construction Industry Award 1989
Nationwide Facilities Management AIS Consent Award 1995
Nurses Private Employment (ACT) Award 1972
Parking Stations etc. Employees (ACT) Award 1983
Plumbing Industry (ACT) Award 1982
Poultry Farm Employees (ACT) Award 1980
Printing and Kindred Industries Union (Canberra Times) Award 1985
Private Pathology Industry (ACT) Interim Award 1996
Red Cross (ACT Blood Bank Administrative Workers) Award 1984
Repair and Retail Motor Industry (ACT) Award 1992
Retail and Wholesale Industry Shop Employees ACT Award 1995
Security Employees (ACT) Award 1986
Storemen and Packers (ACT) Award 1973
Textile Industry Award 1994
The Video Shops (Industrial Agreement) 1992
Theatrical Employees (Cinema and Drive-In Industry) Award 1983
Theatrical Employees (Recreation Grounds and Raceday Racing Officials—NSW and ACT) Award 1990
Transport Workers’ (ACT) Award 1982
Transport Workers’ (Airlines) Award 1988
Transport Workers’ (Armoured Vehicles) Award 1978
Transport Workers’ Garbage (ACT) Award 1990
Transport Workers’ (Long Distance Drivers) Award 1993
Transport Workers’ (Oil Agents/Contractors) Award 1981
Transport Workers’ (Passenger Vehicles) Award 1984”.
	
NOTE
Principal Act
1.	Reprinted as at 31 August 1992.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 25 February 1997]
©  Australian Capital Territory 1997