A PROCLAMATION

APPOINTING MONDAY 28TH DECEMBER 2009 AS A BANK HOLIDAY IN ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND IN PLACE OF SATURDAY 26TH DECEMBER 2009 AND APPOINTING TUESDAY 28TH DECEMBER 2010 AS A BANK HOLIDAY IN ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND.

ELIZABETH R.

Whereas it appears to Us that it is inexpedient that Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of December in the year 2009, should be a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and We consider it desirable that Monday, the twenty-eighth day of December in the year 2009 should be appointed a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in place of it;

And whereas we consider it desirable that Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of December in the year 2010 should be appointed a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland:

Now, therefore, We, in pursuance of sections 1(2) and 1(3) of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, declare that Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of December in the year 2009 shall not be a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and do hereby appoint in place of it Monday, the twenty-eighth day of December in the year 2009, and do hereby appoint Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of December in the year 2010 to be a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord two thousand and nine in the fifty-eighth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN