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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-exchange-act-1882/section-92",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/61",
  "legislation_title": "Bills of Exchange Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-exchange-act-1882",
  "path": "section/92",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "92",
  "heading": "Computation of time.",
  "text": "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.\n“Non-business days” for the purposes of this Act mean—\n(a) Saturday Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day:\n(b) A bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971:\n(c) A day appointed by Royal proclamation as a public fast or thanksgiving day.\n(d) A day declared by an order under section 2 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 to be a non-business day.\nAny other day is a business day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word inserted by Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), s. 3(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), s. 4(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 92(d) added by Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80) s. 4(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/61/section/92",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:57.253128+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}