Regulation 5 Calculating time

An act required by these Regulations or a direction to be done on or by a particular day must be done before 5pm on that day.

If the time specified by these Regulations or a direction for doing any act ends on a day other than a working day, the act is done in time if it is done before 5pm on the next working day.

In this regulation “working day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday in England and Wales under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971^f1.