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Bank and Public Holidays for Fiji

Fiji bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for the first 3 months of 2013, 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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08 Jun 2011 (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved the list of the dates of public holidays for the year 2012, following a submission by Fiji's Minister for Labour, Filipe Bole. • 13 Feb 2011 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) Fiji's Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, Colonel Pio Tikoduadua, has announced that there would be no public holiday to mark the passing of the former President Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda. • 30 Dec 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) The Director of Information of Fiji's Interim Government, Setaita Natai, has issued a statement to the effect that Saturday, January 1st, 2011, will not be a public holiday in Fiji. • 21 Dec 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) The interim government of Fiji has done an about-face and has announced that it had decided to declare Saturday, December 25, 2010, as an official public holiday in Fiji. • 20 Dec 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) The Ministry of Labor, Industrial Relations and Employment of Fiji has announced that, Saturday, December 25, 2010, is not a public holiday and that, as such, most shops in Fiji will be open on that day. • 02 Oct 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) The Ministry of Labor, Industrial Relations and Employment of Fiji has re-released the official dates for the assigned public holidays in calendar year 2011. • 25 May 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) The government of Fiji has issued a communique confirming that the upcoming, May 28, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day public holiday had been cancelled as per the recently promulgated "Employment Relations Regulations 2010". • 24 May 2010 (Ministry of Information-Suva) The Fiji Governing Cabinet has approved the list of the dates of public holidays for the year 2011, following a submission by Fiji's Minister for Education, National Heritage, Culture and Arts, Youth and Sports, Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, Filipe Bole, taking into account the provisions contained in the Promulgation and Employment Relations (Administration) Regulations 2008. • 23 May 2010 (The Fiji Sun-Suva) Fiji's Minister for Education, Filipe Bole, has issued a statement reminding the public, and schools in particular, that the, May 24, John Wesley Day, is not a public holiday in Fiji. • 21 Mar 2010 (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation-Suva) Fiji's Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, has announced that Fiji's Cabinet had decided to amend the "Employment Relations Promulgation Act" and thus remove 2 annual public holidays from the list of official annual public holidays in Fiji. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Fiji 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: Official public holidays in Fiji are regulated by the Public Holidays Act (Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1931, 5 of 1937) as amended by the Employment Relations Promulgation No. 36 of 2007, sections 64-66, which differentiates between 1) Declared public holidays, 2) Days to be celebrated as public holidays, and 3) Special public holidays. • Weekend Public Holidays: When public holidays fall on a Sunday, then the following Monday is a public holiday unless otherwise ordered by the Minister by notification in the Gazette (Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2003). • Exceptions: Sections 65-6 and 66 of the law of record do mention that if the date set for a public holiday set out in Section 64 falls on another day other than a Monday, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, approve that such public holiday be celebrated on another day and also that the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint a special day or any part of a day to be kept as a public holiday in all workplaces. • The dates of the three Special Public Holidays: National Youth Day, Deepawali and Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday were fixed according to submissions from the respective organizations, namely, Ministry of Youth, Employment Opportunities and Sports, Shree Sanatan Dharam Pratinidhi Sabha of Fiji and the Fiji Muslim League. • Prince Charles' Birthday (The anniversary of the birthday of the Heir to the Throne) was dropped from the list of Fiji public holidays in 2003, following spirited and, at times quite amusing, debates in the Senate . • Rugby World Sevens Series: This annual championship, when won by Fiji, has in the past been marked by the last minute declaration of one-off public holidays . • Death of Leading Politicians: The death of leading politicians, active or retired, often results in the last-minute declaration of a national public holiday of mourning . • Constitution Day used to be a public holiday, after the promulgation of the 1990 Constitution, and then, from 1997 until 2001, the public holiday used to commemorate the 1997 Constitution (July 27). Then, in 2001, the Laisenia Qarase's SDL government repealed the Constitution Day public holiday. • Fiji International Codes FJ and FJI (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .fj (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Fiji information and news: Reserve Bank of Fiji (Fiji central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Fiji maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Fiji), and Wikipedia (includes Fiji commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Fiji, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Fiji, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Fiji. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Fiji 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 Fiji 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.

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 2013 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Fiji, 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 Fiji, before planning any trip to Fiji. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.