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Bank and Public Holidays for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka 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 May 2012 (Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs-Colombo) The Sri Lankan Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs has announced that the Sri Lankan Government had finally declared Monday, May 7, 2012, as a one-off public holiday throughout Sri Lanka. • 29 Mar 2012 (The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation-SLBC) The Sri Lankan Government Information Department has announced that, on a proposal made by Prime Minister D.M. Jayarathna, Monday, May 7, 2012, had been declared a one-off public holiday throughout Sri Lanka. • 22 Dec 2011 (Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs-Colombo) The Public Services Commission of the Government of Sri Lanka has announced that there would be no additional public holiday on Monday, December 26, 2011, to compensate th fact that the upcoming Christmas Day public holiday falls on a Sunday. • 01 Nov 2011 (The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka-Colombo) Sri Lanka's Ministry Public Administration and Home Affairs has announced that the date of the upcoming Hajj public holidays (Feast of Sacrifice) had been changed from its earlier gazetted date to Monday, November 7, 2011. • 10 Oct 2011 (Central Bank of Sri Lanka-Colombo) Sri Lanka Banks' Association has released the list of official bank holidays in Sri Lanka for the calendar year 2012. • 31 Aug 2011 (The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka-Colombo) Sri Lanka's Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs has published in the "Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka" the official list of Sri Lankan bank holidays, public holidays, and full Moon Poya days, for the calendar year 2012. • 26 Aug 2011 (Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs-Colombo) The Public Services Commission of the Government of Sri Lanka has announced that the upcoming public holiday for the End of Ramadan would be on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, and would last only one day. • 30 Apr 2011 (The Daily Mirror-Colombo) Sri Lanka's Labour Ministry issued a statement last night that there would not be an additional public holiday on Monday, May 2, 2011, to compensate the fact that the annual May Day public holiday falls on a Sunday this year. • 06 Apr 2011 (Sri Lankan Government News Portal-Colombo) Sri Lanka's Ministry of Public Administration issued a circular today announcing that the government of Sri Lanka had decided to declare Friday, April 15, 2011, as a one-off special public and bank holiday. • 16 Nov 2010 (The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka-Colombo) The government of Sri Lanka has declared a one-off public sector holiday in Colombo on Friday, November 19, 2010, the day of the upcoming inauguration of re-elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Sri Lanka 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: The declaration of official bank holidays and public holidays in Sri Lanka is regulated by section 4 of the Holidays Act. No. 29 of 1971, and the list and dates of these bank holidays and public holidays is announced annually by the Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs. • The full moon Poya Day public holiday of each month is a public holiday with pay for monthly paid employees. If an employee is required to work on such public holidays, then he shall be paid an extra half day’s wage in addition to the monthly wage. When a poya day falls on a weekly holiday or public holiday, no additional holiday need be given to employees in lieu of the poya day . • However, banks seem to move fixed-date public holidays that fall on a Sunday to the following Monday. • Sri Lanka International Codes LK and LKA (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .lk (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Sri Lanka information and news: Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Sri Lanka maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Sri Lanka), and Wikipedia (includes Sri Lanka commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Sri Lanka, 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.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Sri Lanka that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Sri Lanka were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Hindu Calendar Public Holidays : For Sri Lanka, when calculating the date of bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays based on the Hindu Lunar calendar, if the date is expunged (ie. does not occur), then we use the following existing date of the Hindu Lunar calendar. Local practice concerning expunged days may vary regionally as described in many sources, including the 1998 book The Indian Calendric System by G.K. Chatterjee.

Solar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, equinoxes, solstices, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict solar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Sri Lanka are based on the geographical location of Colombo (latitude 6,9°N, longitude 79,8°E, GMT+5,5 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2013 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

Lunisolar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict lunar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Sri Lanka are based on the geographical location of Colombo (latitude 6,9°N, longitude 79,8°E, GMT+6,0 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2013 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

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 Sri Lanka, 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 Sri Lanka, before planning any trip to Sri Lanka. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.