(3) An order under section 2 above may be made with respect to a bank holiday or other day which is a non-business day for the purposes of the enactments relating to bills of exchange and promissory notes or with respect to a business day; but if a day specified under section 2(1) is otherwise a business day for those purposes, the order may declare it a non-business day.
(4) Accordingly in section 92 of the 1882 c. 61.Bills of Exchange Act 1882, in the definition of “non-business days”, for the words “the 1871 c. 17.Bank Holidays Act 1871 or Acts amending it” in paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971”, and there shall be added as a new paragraph (d):—
- “(d) a day declared by an order under section 2 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 to be a non-business day.”
(5) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act (which includes in Part I certain enactments already obsolete or unnecessary apart from this Act) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.
Short title and extent. 5.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.
(2) It is hereby declared that this Act, except section 4(2), extends to Northern Ireland; but section 1 of this Act, together with section 4(1), shall be deemed for purposes of section 6 of 1920 c. 67.the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to be contained in an Act passed before the appointed day.
