Other provisions relating to courts

21Additional court holidays

In section 10 of the M1Bail etc. (Scotland) Act 1980 (which, amongst other things, empowers the sheriff principal to prescribe up to 10 days as court holidays)—

(a)

in subsection (2) at the end there shall be added—

“; and may in the like manner prescribe as an additional court holiday any day which has been proclaimed, under section 1(3) of the M2Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971. to be a bank holiday either throughout the United Kingdom or in a place or locality in the United Kingdom within his jurisdiction.”; and

(b)

in subsection (3) at the end there shall be added—

“; and he may, after such consultation, prescribe as an additional court holiday any day which has been proclaimed, under section 1(3) of the said Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, to be a bank holiday either throughout the United Kingdom or in a place or locality in the United Kingdom within his jurisdiction.”.