Article 18 Time
Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of these Rules, a notice or other document is to be taken to have been received on the day on which it was in fact received.
Where a notice or other document is sent by first class post by the Secretary of State or by the adjudicator, it is to be taken to have been received 2 days after the day on which it was sent, unless the contrary is proven.
Where reference is made in these Rules to a specified number of days after an event, the number of days is to be calculated from the expiry of the day on which the event occurred.
Where these Rules provide that an act is to be done or to be taken to have been done:
not later than a specified number of days after an event; or
a specified number of days after an event;
and that number of days:
expires on an excluded day, the act is to be taken to have been done as required if done on the next working day;
includes an excluded day, that day is to be discounted.
Where these Rules provide that an act is to be done or to be taken to have been done on a certain day and that day is an excluded day, the act is to be taken to have been done as required if done on the next working day.