Jump to content

Administrative Code of 1987/Book I/Chapter 7

From Wikisource
Administrative Code of 1987 (1987)
by Corazon Aquino
Book I, Chapter 7

Source: Supplement to the Official Gazette. Vol. 83, No. 38. Manila. National Printing Office. 1987. pp. 7–8.

4572169Administrative Code of 1987 — Book I, Chapter 71987Corazon Aquino

Chapter 7Regular Holidays and Nationwide Special Days

Sec. 26. Regular Holidays and Nationwide Special Days.—(1) Unless otherwise modified by law, order or proclamation, the following regular holidays and special days shall be observed in this country:

(A) Regular Holidays
New Year's Day —January 1
Maundy Thursday —Movable date
Good Friday —Movable date
Araw ng Kagitingan (Bataan and Corregidor Day) —April 9
Labor Day —May 1
Independence Day —June 12
National Heroes Day —Last Sunday of August
Bonifacio Day —November 30
Christmas Day —December 25
Rizal Day —December 30
(B) Nationwide Special Days
All Saints Day —November 1
Last Day of the Year —December 31

(2) The terms "legal or regular holiday" and "special holiday", as used in laws, orders, rules and regulations or other issuances shall be referred to as "regular holiday" and "special day", respectively.

Sec. 27. Local Special Days.—The President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.

Sec. 28. Pretermission of Holiday.—Where the day, or the last day, for doing any act required or permitted by law falls on a regular holiday or special day, the act may be done on the next succeeding business day.

This work is in the public domain because it is a work of the Philippine government (see Republic Act No. 8293 Sec. 176).

All official Philippine texts of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature, or any official translation thereof, are ineligible for copyright.

An additional license tag is required in order to demonstrate why this work is freely licensed or in the public domain in the United States.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse