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Bank and Public Holidays for New Zealand

New Zealand 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 Feb 2012 (The Parliament of New Zealand-Paremata Aotearoa) A private members bill, to always declare the Monday following a weekend public holiday as an additional non-working public holiday, was drawn from the member's bill ballot and introduced to New Zealand's Parliament yesterday. • 10 Jan 2012 (Radio New Zealand-Auckland) The Government of New Zealand has announced that the declaration of a one-off public holiday to commemorate the first anniversary of the February 22, 2011, Christchurch earthquake, was not under consideration. • 18 Oct 2011 (New Zealand Labour Party Communique-Wellington) New Zealand's Labour Party leader, Phil Goff, has announced that, if his party wins the upcoming general elections, it would amend the NZ Holidays Act to Mondayize all public holidays when they fall on a weekend. • 23 Mar 2011 (The Otago Daily Times-Queenstown) Once again this year's observance of New Zealand's Otago Day in Queenstown was patchy with many local businesses having preferred to observe the January Southland regional public holiday. • 10 Mar 2011 (TVNZ-Auckland) The Canterbury Earthquake Commemoration Bill has been approved in New Zealand's Parliament, thus officializing the recently-announced March 18 regional public holiday. • 07 Mar 2011 (The Otago Daily Times-Otago) New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, has finally announced that there would be a one-off regional public holiday on Friday, March 18, 2011, on the date of the upcoming national memorial service to honor the victims of the recent Christchurch earthquake. • 03 Mar 2011 (The New Zealand Herald-Wellington) The Government of New Zealand has announced that it might declare a one-off national mourning public holiday in conjunction with a memorial service for the victims of the recent Christchurch earthquake. • 28 Jan 2011 (The New Zealand Herald-Wellington) The leader of New Zealand's Labour Party, Phil Goff, has announced that his party would introduce a bill to ensure that if the Waitangi Day and Anzac Day public holidays fall on either a Saturday or Sunday, then the following Monday would be a public holiday. • 07 Nov 2010 (Sunday Star Times-Wellington) A spokesman for New Zealand's Labour Minister, Kate Wilkinson, has announced that it was "extremely unlikely" that the government would declare an additional public holiday to compensate the overlap of Easter Monday and ANZAC Day in 2011. • 21 Aug 2010 (New Zealand Parliament-Wellington) The New Zealand government has introduced The Holidays Amendment Bill, which includes a late amendment in order to clarify the law around the Christmas and New Year public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the New Zealand public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

New Zealand public holidays are governed by the Holidays Act 2003, which, as of April 1, 2004, replaced the Holidays Act 1981, and was later amended by the Holidays Amendment Act, 2004. • Weekend Public Holidays: Except for Christmas, New Year's, and their respective following days, public holidays are supposed to stay fixed if they fall on a weekend. A number of places do, however, add a day in lieu for ANZAC Day, if it occurs on a weekend day, even though it is supposed to stay fixed. • Shopping on Sundays and Public Holidays: In 1990 most shops could not trade on any Sunday and they were unable to open on nine of the 11 recognised public holidays. Now they can trade on 51 out of 52 Sundays and every public holiday except Good Friday, Christmas Day and the morning of Anzac Day. The one Sunday when shops are not currently allowed to open, is Easter Sunday, although this restriction is currently being reviewed . • Provincial Anniversary Days: these relate to the former Provinces of 19th Century New Zealand and are not related to or determined by present-day Districts or Regions. In each province, these are generally celebrated on the closest Monday to the actual day, but not always. • Auckland: January 29. Canterbury: Northern & Central Canterbury areas observe Christchurch Show Day. South Canterbury observes Dominion Day. Chatham Islands: November 30. Hawkes' Bay: Moves from November 1 to Friday before Labour Day. Marlborough: Moves from November 1 to 1st Monday after Labour Day. Nelson: February 1. Otago: March 23 (Moves to Tuesday 25 March to avoid Easter in 2008) Southland: around January 17. Taranaki: moves from March 31 to 2nd Monday in March (to avoid Easter). Wellington: January 22. Westland: December 1. • Melbourne Cup Day, the first Tuesday in November, is, officially speaking, only celebrated in Melbourne, Australia, but it also generates a lot of interest in NZ, where business does slow down that afternoon. • New Zealand International Codes NZ and NZL (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .nz (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of New Zealand information and news: Reserve Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (New Zealand maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in New Zealand), and Wikipedia (includes New Zealand commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in New Zealand, 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 2013 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for New Zealand, 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 New Zealand, before planning any trip to New Zealand. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.