Section 102

Subject to section 14, all bills and notes that are due and payable on any Sunday or public holiday shall be payable, and, in the case of non-payment, may be noted and protested, on the day next following and not on the Sunday or public holiday.

Any such noting or protest shall be as valid as if made on the day on which the bill or note was made due and payable.

When the day on which any notice of dishonour of an unpaid bill or note should be given, or when the day on which a bill or note should be presented or received for acceptance or accepted or forwarded to any referee or referees, is a Sunday or public holiday, the notice of dishonour shall be given, or the bill or note shall be presented or forwarded, on the day next following the Sunday or public holiday.

No person shall be compellable to make any payment or do any act relating to a bill or note on a Sunday or public holiday, but the obligation to make such payment or to do any such act shall be deferred to the day next following the Sunday or public holiday; and the making of the payment or the doing of the act on the day next following shall be equivalent to payment or the doing of the act on the Sunday or public holiday.

For the purposes of this section, the day next following a Sunday or public holiday means the next following day not being itself a Sunday or public holiday.