Bank holiday (disambiguation)
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Bank holiday chiefly refers to a public holiday in the UK and Ireland during which banking institutions are closed for business.
Bank holiday may also refer to:
Holidays
- Public holidays in Australia. In the state of Victoria, all statutory holidays, their substitutes, and Saturdays are legally defined as bank holidays.
- Public holidays in Gibraltar are often referred to as "bank holidays" and used interchangeably, although strictly and legally there is a difference.
- Public holidays in Hong Kong. The term "bank holiday" is used colloquially to refer to public holidays.
- Bank holidays in India, 15 of the public holidays are termed "bank holidays".
- Public holidays in the Republic of Ireland. In Ireland, "bank holiday" is a colloquial term, sometimes used incorrectly for what are officially "public holidays". A bank holiday in Ireland are only days in which Bank employees are off, e.g. Good Friday is a Bank Holiday, but not a Public Holiday.
Business and government
- Emergency Banking Act, the Bank holiday declared in the USA on March 9, 1933 during the Great Depression
- Federal holiday, a public holiday in the US during which banking institutions are closed for business
Art and entertainment
- The Bank Holidays, an Australian indie pop band
- Bank Holiday, a musical composition by Albert Ketèlbey
- Bank Holiday Records, record label owned by Lily Allen
- "Bank Holiday", a song by the Britpop band Blur on their album Parklife (1994)
- "Bank Holiday Monday" (song), a song by the Britrock band Stereophonics
- Bank Holiday (film), a 1938 British drama film