Talk:Bank holiday

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Boxing Day[edit]

The term 'Boxing Day' is not defined or used in primary UK legislation and although some hold it cannot fall on a Sunday, I have seen and heard Sunday 26th called Boxing Day. I have never heard/seen a claim that Boxing Day cannot fall on a Saturday.

Legislation does provide that if December 26 falls on a Sunday, Monday 27th shall be a Bank Holiday (just as if December 25 falls on a Sunday). This may explain the apparent 'rule' that B/D cannot fall on a Sunday.

In more recent years, if December 25 or 26 fall on a Saturday a substitute Bank Holiday is given on the Monday/Tuesday following but by Royal Proclamation not statute.

All this basically simplifies into the first two weekdays after December 24 being public holidays, commonly called Bank Holidays. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.232.34.78 (talk) 18:08, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

'Terminology' is not very helpful[edit]

This section does nothing to explain why these are referred to as a "bank" holiday. Walkersam (talk) 18:58, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2nd ... The reason I actually came here and no cigar :-( JB. --92.195.118.47 (talk) 16:37, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Bank holidays were first introduced by a man named Sir John Lubbock... In 1871, he drafted the Bank Holiday Bill. When it became law, he created the first official bank holidays. Initially, it was just banks and financial buildings that would close, which is where the name comes from. ... as time went on, businesses, shops, schools and the government all joined in." https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49448327

We might also mention in passing that Australia has something called a bank holiday, but such holidays are not for the general public, those are called public holidays. Bank holidays are for bank employees, and some financial institutions, and sometimes for government employees, but never for the public in general. Ben Aveling 15:38, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Moved/deleted content[edit]

I moved a lot of information from this article to Public holidays in the United Kingdom and deleted a lot of information that was duplicated without realising there was an archived discussion about merging the two articles. In fairness, that's not what I've done - I've just arranged the information by topic as I saw fit, i.e.

Bank holidays: Use of this term regardless of territory (so including RoI and the Crown dependencies)
Public holidays in the United Kingdom: Public holidays in the UK, regardless of whether or not the reader knows these are called "bank holidays" and regardless of whether or not they even are bank holidays (in the case of Scottish local holidays)

Both articles still need work, but at least it won't have to be duplicated on both pages anymore. Mibblepedia (talk) 18:40, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Queen's Official Birthday[edit]

Shouldn't Queen's Official Birthday be added? --MiLuZi (talk) 10:26, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Minor inconsistency[edit]

Some holidays are referred to as a "bank holiday" (no capital letters, e.g. "Early May bank holiday") and some as a "Bank Holiday" (both with capitals, e.g. "Late May Bank Holiday") - any consensus on a convention to be used here (or is there a legitimate reason to keep them inconsistent). 92.9.19.173 (talk) 14:00, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]