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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Guernsey and Alderney

The list of Guernsey and Alderney bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2009, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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14 Oct 2009 (States of Guernsey-St. Peter Port) The States of Guernsey (the Guernsey Government) has agreed to declare the day after next year's Liberation Day public holiday, Monday, May 10th, 2010, an additional official public holiday, in Guernsey. • 11 Sep 2009 (Channel Online-St. Peter Port) Guernsey and Alderney's Commerce and Employment Department has asked the Guernsey Government (aka. the States of Guernsey) to declare the day after Liberation Day an official public holiday, in Guernsey, in 2010. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Guernsey and Alderney public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Public holidays in Guernsey are all regulated by The Public Holidays Ordinance, 1994 as amended in the The Public Holidays Ordinance, 2001, p. 527 and The Public Holidays (Alderney) Ordinance, 2004, except for Good Friday and Christmas which are customary law holidays. Their naming is set forth in The Bills of Exchange (Amendment) Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1993 which provides that all references to Bank Holidays in any enactment, order of the court or statutory instrument shall be replaced with the term Public Holidays. • The Summer Bank Holiday is a major full-blown public holiday despite the fact that it is observed on different dates depending on the islands (Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, Jethou) and is therefore classified as a "regional" public holiday. • Alderney obeserves slightly different public holidays than the rest of the Channel Islands (namely Guernsey). In particular, since 2005, the "Public Holiday (Homecoming Day) (Alderney) Ordnance, 2005" has made December 15 a yearly public holiday in Alderney . • Guernsey and Alderney International Codes GG and GGY (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .gg (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Guernsey and Alderney information and news: Bank of England (Guernsey and Alderney central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Guernsey and Alderney maps, demographics and economic statistics), and Wikipedia (includes Guernsey and Alderney commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Guernsey and Alderney, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

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In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2009 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Guernsey and Alderney, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Guernsey and Alderney, before planning any trip to Guernsey and Alderney. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.