{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3046",
  "legislation_title": "THE COURT OF PROTECTION RULES 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-1994",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Computation of time",
  "text": "(1) Where a period of time fixed by these Rules or by any order or direction of the court for doing any act expires on a day on which the appropriate office for doing that act is closed and for that reason the act cannot be done on that day, the act shall be in time if done on the next day on which that office is open.\n(2) Where the act is required to be done within a specified period after or from a specified date, the period begins immediately after that date.\n(3) Where any period of time fixed as mentioned in paragraph (1) is less than six days, any day on which the appropriate office is closed shall not be included in the computation of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3046/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:02.569441+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."
}