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Section 92 Computation of time.

Where, by this Act, the time limited for doing any act or thing is less than three days, in reckoning time, non-business days are excluded.

  • “Non-business days” for the purposes of this Act mean—

(a)

F1Saturday Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day:

(b)

A bank holiday under F2the M1Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971:

(c)

A day appointed by Royal proclamation as a public fast or thanksgiving day.

F3(d)

A day declared by an order under section 2 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 to be a non-business day.

Any other day is a business day.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word inserted by Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), s. 3(1)(3)

F2

Words substituted by Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), s. 4(4)

F3

S. 92(d) added by Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80) s. 4(4)

Marginal citations

M1

1971 c. 80.