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Press Release
National Holiday on the Occasion of the Commemoration of Idul Adha
Law Nº 10/2005, of August 10, amended by Law Nº 3/2016, of May 25, establishes the legal regime of public holidays, official commemorative dates and tolerances.
This law establishes, in nº1 of article 2, national holidays with a fixed date and in nº 2 of the same article, national holidays with a variable date, and determines that the setting, each year, of the specific date for variable national holidays, is to be made by a decree signed by the member of Government responsible, pursuant to nº3 of the same legal provision.
As no decree was issued on the matter at the beginning of this year, it is necessary to comply with the provisions of Article 2 (3) and to define as a holiday the Idul Adha, whose date, considering the religious nature of the event this holiday is celebrating, was indicated by the Islamic Community Center of Timor-Leste.
Thus, under the terms and for the purposes of nº 3 of article 2 of Law Nº 10/2005, of August 10, as amended by Law No. 3/2016, of May 25, the Government determines the following:
Declares a national holiday on 22 August, the day of commemoration of the ldul Adha, a holiday of the Muslim religion.