Section 3: Power to alter day appointed to be a public holiday.

The Minister for Internal affairs (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") may by public notice, when it appears to him in any special case that in any year it is inexpedient that a day appointed by section 1 of this Act to be kept as a public holiday should be kept as a public holiday, declare that such day shall not be kept as a public holiday and may appoint such other day as he may think fit to be kept as a public holiday instead of such day, and thereupon the day appointed shall be substituted for the day in such year appointed by this Act:
Provided that where a day declared to be kept as a public holiday for the celebration of a religious festival is found not to be the actual day on which the adherents of the religion concerned perform the religious festival, it shall be lawful for such adherents to take time off work on that actual day for the celebration of such festival.