Section 7
Payments, etc., on public or bank holidays
Except where by regulations made under this Act or written contract it is expressly provided to the contrary, no person shall be compellable on a public holiday to make any payment under, or do any act in performance of, a contract:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to affect the terms and conditions of service under which a person is employed.
(2)
No person shall be compellable on a bank holiday to make any payment in or at a bank or to do in or at a bank any act requiring a banking service.
(3)
The obligation to make such payment or to do such act shall apply to the day following such public or bank holiday not being a weekly or a public or bank holiday.
(4)
The making of such payment and the doing of such act on such following day shall be equivalent to payment of the money or performance of the act on the holiday.