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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for New Caledonia

The list of New Caledonia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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05 Jun 2008 (Radio New Zealand International) French high commissioner, Yves Dassonville, has announced that New Caledonia will celebrate June 26th as a public holiday from this year onward to mark the political reconciliation achieved 20 years ago, when the 1988 Matignon Accords were signed in Paris to end years of instability and tension between anti-independence supporters and pro-independence Kanaks. • 25 Oct 2006 The French cabinet has decided that the 2007 presidential elections will be held on April 22, 2007, followed by an almost certainly necessary second round on May 6, 2007. The presidential elections will be followed by a two-round vote for the legislative assembly, on June 10 and June 17, 2007. Note that French overseas dependencies, such as New Caledonia, will cast their vote in the presidential election, the day before the vote in France. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the New Caledonia public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in New Caledonia are the same as those in France and are regulated by Article L222-1 du Code du travail (Labour Code), to which is added New Caledonia Day and, since 2008, New Caledonia Day. • Weekend Public Holidays: Public holidays that occur on a weekend remain on that date (ie. they are not moved to another date, such as the following Monday, for example). • Whit Monday was no longer recognized as one of the public holidays as of 2005, to help fund health care for elderly persons following the high number of elderly deaths during the heat wave of the summer of 2003. However, it returned to the list of French public holidays starting in 2008. • Each Industry has some interplay with these holidays, thus an employee might have to work on some of them but get other days off in lieu . • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Bank of France (New Caledonia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in New Caledonia, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for New Caledonia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of New Caledonia, before planning any trip to New Caledonia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.