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Cook Islands Industrial and Labour Ordinance Amendment Act 2002

COOK ISLANDS

COOK ISLANDS INDUSTRIAL AND LABOUR
ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ACT 2002

ANALYSIS

1. Short Title
2. Holidays

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2002, No. 11

An Act to amend the Cook Islands Industrial and Labour Ordinance 1964

(13 December 2002

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Cook Islands Industrial and Labour Ordinance Amendment Act 2002 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Industrial and Labour Ordinance 1964 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Holidays - Section 31 of the principal Act is amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following new subsection -

"(1) Except as hereinafter provided, every employer shall allow every worker employed by him, the following holidays that is to say-

(a) A whole holiday on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, the Day Following New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, the Sovereign's Birthday, Constitution Day, Cook Islands Gospel Day (and Island Gospel Day as it applies to that island);

(b) Annual holidays on the basis of two weeks for a complete twelve months service."

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This Act is administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs