Beaconsfield people here are the Bank holiday and British summer time dates for 2012

Hello Beaconsfield people here are the Bank holiday and British Summer Time dates for 2012.

Bank holidays are holidays when banks and many other businesses are closed for the day. Public holidays are holidays which have been observed through custom and practice. Find out about the bank and public holiday dates and when the clocks go forward and back for British Summer Time.

England and Wales 2012       

New Year's Day 2 January*     

Good Friday 6 April

Easter Monday 9 April    

Early May Bank Holiday     7 May    

Spring Bank Holiday 4 June*    

Queen's Diamond Jubilee      5 June

Summer Bank Holiday         27 August

Christmas Day                 25 December

Boxing Day                    26 December

* substitute day

 

There are different bank and public holidays in different parts of the UK. There are currently six permanent bank holidays in England and Wales with an additional one 2012.

Christmas Day and Good Friday are public holidays.

The expected bank and public holidays for England and Wales are listed above.

Special bank holidays

 

There are laws that allow the dates of bank holidays to be changed, or other holidays to be declared, for example to celebrate special occasions.

It has been announced that there will be a special bank holiday in 2012 to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The 2012 late May bank holiday will be moved to Monday 4 June 2012 and an additional Jubilee bank holiday will be on Tuesday 5 June 2012.

There was also a special bank holiday on 29 April 2011 to celebrate the royal wedding.

Substitute days

When the usual date of a bank or public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, a 'substitute day' is given, normally the following Monday. For example in 2009, Boxing Day was on Saturday, 26 December, so there was a substitute bank holiday on Monday, 28 December.

Time off for employees

You don't have an automatic right to paid leave on bank and public holidays, though many people receive the day off work. Any right to time off or extra pay for working on a bank holiday depends on the terms of your contract of employment.

British Summer Time

British Summer Time (BST) starts on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October, at 1.00 am Greenwich Mean Time (GMT):

 

in spring the clocks go forward, losing an hour - at 1.00 am GMT the UK moves to 2.00 am BST. 

in autumn the clocks go back, giving an extra hour - at 2.00 am BST the UK moves to 1.00 am GMT

Summer time periods begin and end on the following dates:

Clocks go forward       25th March

Clocks go back     28th October       

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