Good Friday

Good Friday. The Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 92, consolidating 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 42, passed for the better observance of Good Friday, and 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 15, provides that Good Friday and Christmas Day are to be excluded as 'non-business days' in cases where the time limited by that Act for doing any act or thing is less than three days; and also, by s. 14, that where the last of the three 'days of grace' (see GRACE DAY OF) falls on Good Friday, a bill of exchange shall be payable on the preceding business day. Good Friday is a holiday in the Courts and offices of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 4), and is not reckoned in the computation of limited time (less than six days) for the purposes of the Rules, (ibid., Ord. LXIV., r. 2), or of limited time, not exceeding seven days, for the purposes of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, by s. 230 of that Act, which also allows acts to be done on the day after Good Friday instead of on Good Friday. Houses where intoxicating liquor is sold are closed as on Sunday (Licensing Act, 1874, s. 3). See, further, HOLIDAY