{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2018/9780111039694",
  "legislation_title": "The Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Calculations involving months",
  "text": "(1) Where a day (“day 1”) is described as falling a specified number of months before or after another day (“day 2”), the date of day 1 is to be determined as follows.\n(2) Count backwards or forwards (as the case may be) the specified number of months from the month in which day 2 falls.\n(3) If the month arrived at in accordance with paragraph (2) has a day corresponding to day 2, day 1 is that day of the month arrived at.\n(4) If the month arrived at in accordance with paragraph (2) has too few days to have a day corresponding to day 2, day 1 is the last day of the month arrived at.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For example, if a child is born on 31st August, the day falling 6 months after the day the child is born is 28th February (or 29th February in a leap year)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2018/9780111039694/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:33:10.884640+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."
}