Public holidays in Tokelau

Public holidays in Tokelau are described in the Interpretation Rules 2003 as "Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Tokehega Day, and any day declared by a village to be a public holiday".^[1] Although some New Zealand public holidays, such as Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day^[2] are celebrated in Tokelau, these are not official holidays.^[3]

Tokehega Day

Tokehega Day is celebrated on 3 September,^[4] the date that the Treaty of Tokehega came into effect.

References

↑ Interpretation Rules 2003, s2.
↑ "Culture and Society", Malo Tokelau, 2004.
↑ "Bank and Public Holidays for Tokelau", Alter Ego Services, 2011.
↑ "Tokelauan Public Holidays", Holidayyear, 2015.

Public holidays in Oceania

Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue

Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

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