(1)For the purposes of this Act—
(a)in reckoning any period which is therein expressed to be a period from or before a given date, that date is to be excluded; and
(b)in reckoning any period therein mentioned of 8 days or less which apart from this provision would include a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday, that day is to be excluded.
(2)In this section “bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under the M1Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 323 applied (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 25(1)(2); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch.
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