name: Workers Mourning Day Act
unofficial_text: # Workers Mourning Day Act
  
  SC 1991, c 15
  
  An Act respecting a Day of Mourning for Persons Killed or Injured in the Workplace
  
  Assented to 1991-2-1
  
  WHEREAS it is desirable that Canadians should designate a day of mourning to remember workers killed, disabled or injured in the workplace and workers afflicted with industrial disease; AND WHEREAS Canadians seek earnestly to set an example of their commitment to the issue of health and safety in the workplace; NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 
  
  ## Short Title 
  
  ### Short title
  
  1 This Act may be cited as the Workers Mourning Day Act.  
  
  ### Day of Mourning
  
  2 (1) Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the 28th day of April shall be known under the name of "Day of Mourning for Persons Killed or Injured in the Workplace". 
  
  ### Not a legal holiday
  
  (2) For greater certainty, the Day of Mourning for Persons Killed or Injured in the Workplace is not a legal holiday or a non-juridical day and shall not be required to be kept or observed as such.