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First Session, Forty-second Parliament,

64-65-66 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016-2017

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-311
An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Remembrance Day)

Reprinted as amended by the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage as a working copy for the use of the House of Commons at Report Stage and as reported to the House on March 21, 2017

Mr. Fraser (West Nova)

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Holidays Act to make Remembrance Day a legal holiday.‍

Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
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1st Session, 42nd Parliament,

64-65-66 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016-2017

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-311

An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Remembrance Day)

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

R.‍S.‍, c. H-5

Holidays Act

1Section 3 of the Holidays Act is replaced by the following:

Remembrance Day

3(1)November 11, being the day in the year 1918 on which the Great War was triumphantly concluded by an armistice, is a legal holiday and shall be kept and observed as such throughout Canada under the name of “Remembrance Day”.

When November 11 is a Saturday or a Sunday

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Canadian flag at half-mast

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Coming into Force

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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons

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