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Northern Mariana Islands bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, 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.

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01 Nov 2010 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) Over the weekend, Saipan Governor, Benigno R. Fitial, issued a memo declaring the coming week as a two-day public sector workweek. • 18 Nov 2009 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) Saipan's Commonwealth Election Commission Board has announced that the date of the upcoming runoff election would be Monday, November 23, 2009, which has been declared a non-working public holiday. • 31 Mar 2008 (Marianas Variety) Parliament is about to vote whether to reintroduce austerity Fridays, whereby government offices close every other Friday, and employees who do not work on official CNMI holidays are not be paid for that day. • 03 Oct 2007 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) Public Law 15-24, which created the biweekly austerity holidays, expires at the end of this month, with no legal basis left for what would be the upcoming austerity holiday, scheduled for Friday, October 5, 2007. • 08 May 2007 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) The government introduced legislation that proposes unpaid holidays to replace the biweekly austerity holidays beginning this October. • 01 May 2007 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) Governor Benigno R. Fitial suggested that austerity Fridays be replaced with unpaid legal holidays, which would make every other Friday a forced, unpaid public holiday, for civil servants. • 21 Mar 2007 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) Government offices will be closed on March 22, in celebration of Commonwealth Covenant Day, observed every March 24. • 02 Jan 2007 (Commonwealth Law Revision Commission) In 2007, government offices will continue to shut-down every non-payday Friday, under a system called Austerity Holiday, under which civil servants are forced to take unpaid days off. • 01 Sep 2006 (House of Representatives-Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature) The legislature of the Northern Marianas Islands (aka. Saipan) have voted Public Law 15-27, which institutes the concept of Austerity Fridays, forcing an unpaid public service holiday, on every second Friday. • 01 May 2006 (The Saipan Tribune-Garapan) Columbus Day was renamed Commonwealth Cultural Day, pursuant to Public Law 15-4 that was enacted in April 2006. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Northern Mariana Islands public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

The Northern Mariana Islands are also known as Saïpan (particularly in the USA), Saipan being the main island. • Governing Law: the official list of Northern Marianas public holidays and of their observance is governed by 1 CMC section 311, as amended in April 2006. • Austerity Holidays: Established by Public Law 15-24, the austerity holidays take place every other Friday. This cost-cutting measure began in September 2006 and will continue until the end of fiscal year 2007. When an austerity holiday falls on the same date as a public holiday (Good Friday 2007, for example), then the austerity holiday is moved to the day before, or the day after, if the public holiday falls on a Monday . • Columbus Day was renamed Commonwealth Cultural Day, beginning in 2006. • Northern Mariana Islands International Codes MP and MNP (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .mp (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Northern Mariana Islands information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Northern Mariana Islands maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Northern Mariana Islands), and Wikipedia (includes Northern Mariana Islands commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Northern Mariana Islands, 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.

Disclaimer
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 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Northern Mariana Islands, 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 Northern Mariana Islands, before planning any trip to Northern Mariana Islands. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.