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| (1) No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to make or to do on a Full Moon Poya Day or a Sunday: and accordingly, the obligation to make such payment or to do such act shall apply to the date next following such bank holiday which is not itself a Full Moon Poya Day or a Sunday or a bank holiday; and the making of such payment or the doing of such act on such following day shall be deemed, for all purposes, to be the equivalent to the making of such payment or the doing of such act on such bank holiday. |
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| (2) Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall affect the law for the time being in force relating to bills of exchange or promissory notes, nor shall anything in such provisions apply to any payment or act to be made or done in a court or public office on a bank holiday which is not a public holiday. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts