{
  "entity_type": "data_package_index",
  "dataset_id": "calcgrid-malta-public-holidays",
  "dataset_version": "mt-statutory-calendar-2026.1",
  "jurisdiction": "MT",
  "coverage": {
    "start": "2026-01-01",
    "end": "2026-12-31"
  },
  "supported_years": [
    2026
  ],
  "scope": "Malta 2026 fourteen named statutory holidays and Sunday public holidays with explicit Monday-Friday planning baseline",
  "holiday_policy": "Cap252_five_national_nine_scheduled_plus_Sundays; individualized_leave_not_computed",
  "substitute_day_policy": "No_uniform_next_Monday_or_compensatory_leave_date_assigned",
  "limitation": "Malta 2026 named statutory holidays and Sunday public-holiday status over an explicitly selected Monday-Friday planning baseline BEFORE individual annual or compensatory leave. Additional vacation entitlement for a named holiday on a weekly rest day depends on the person's employment and roster; no next-Monday or later leave date is assigned. Bank-only, school, local, employer and shift calendars, hours, payroll, personal entitlements and legal deadlines are not computed. Future years require a separately verified package.",
  "year_urls": {
    "2026": "/api/v1/data/malta-public-holidays/2026"
  },
  "calculators": [
    "/api/v1/calculators/malta-public-working-day",
    "/api/v1/calculators/malta-public-add-working-days",
    "/api/v1/calculators/malta-public-working-days-between"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "government-calendar",
      "name": "Government of Malta: Public Holidays in Malta, 2026",
      "url": "https://www.gov.mt/en/About%20Malta/Pages/Public%20Holidays.aspx",
      "type": "government_calendar",
      "sha256": "2cf00c3c271127880ea243be184d5261f734265ecb7d8141846498ae89cc4e1e",
      "hash_scope": "normalized_rendered_holiday_table_JSON_utf8",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-29T09:50:00Z",
      "checked_on": "2026-09-29",
      "scope": "Fourteen dated rows read in the normal browser. SHA-256 covers JSON.stringify of two-column rows: remove zero-width U+200B-U+200D/U+FEFF, collapse whitespace, trim cells and keep rows with both cells nonempty. Not the raw HTTP page body."
    },
    {
      "id": "cap252",
      "name": "Malta Chapter 252: National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act",
      "url": "https://legislation.mt/getpdf/6045db8471043016743df577",
      "landing_url": "https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/252/eng/pdf",
      "type": "legislation",
      "sha256": "6051a2ed151d82ca79cf8da5dff73f9af794c506f11862be1e91b49691771b6b",
      "hash_scope": "response_body_bytes",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-29T09:49:21.2777213Z",
      "checked_on": "2026-09-29",
      "scope": "Two PDF pages visually checked: five national dates, nine other scheduled holidays and all Sundays. Article 6(c) adds vacation-leave entitlement from 2021; it does not assign a next-Monday date."
    },
    {
      "id": "dier-vacation",
      "name": "DIER: Vacation Leave",
      "url": "https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/leave/vacation-leave/",
      "type": "government_guidance",
      "checked_on": "2026-09-29",
      "retrieval_method": "normal_browser_rendered_page",
      "hash_scope": "not_captured",
      "scope": "Read directly in the normal browser: full-time off-roster holiday leave and pro-rata boundaries; leave requires employer/employee agreement. No raw-body hash claimed after direct HTTP returned 403. Personal leave hours, payroll and later leave dates are not computed."
    }
  ],
  "work_schedule": "mon_fri_planning",
  "required_inputs": [
    "work_schedule"
  ],
  "named_statutory_holidays_per_year": 14,
  "national_holidays_per_year": 5,
  "other_scheduled_holidays_per_year": 9,
  "sunday_policy": "Every_Sunday_is_public_holiday_under_Cap252_5_1; separate_from_named_events",
  "compensatory_leave_scope": "not_computed",
  "compensatory_date_policy": "no_dates_assigned",
  "personal_roster_scope": "not_computed",
  "payroll_scope": "not_computed",
  "count_scope": "Planning dates before individualized annual/compensatory leave; NOT actual annual attendance",
  "excluded_scopes": [
    "bank_only_closures",
    "school_calendar",
    "local_or_sector_calendars",
    "individual_shift_rosters",
    "employer_compensatory_dates",
    "unverified_future_years"
  ],
  "evidence_checked_on": "2026-09-29",
  "date_derivation": "Fourteen dates copied from the government's 2026 table, independently checked against Cap.252 and Gregorian Good Friday; Sundays generated from the Gregorian calendar.",
  "license": "No_blanket_open_license_claimed_for_official_web_text",
  "reuse_note": "Only calendar facts and independently written rule summaries are reproduced. Government pages and legal PDF text are not redistributed. The rendered-table hash is not a raw HTTP body hash."
}