New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BANKS AND BANK HOLIDAYS ACT 1912 - SECT 18

18 As to payments on bank holidays

No person shall be compellable to make any payment or do any act upon such bank holidays which the person would not be compellable to do or make on Sunday and the obligation to make such payment and to do such act shall apply to the day following such bank holiday; and the making of such payment and doing such act on such following day shall be equivalent to payment of the money or performance of the act on the holiday.

Note: But see (Commonwealth) Bills of Exchange Act 1909 , s 7 and First Schedule. See also (Commonwealth) Banking Act 1959 , s 68.