{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-323",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-323.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/66",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980",
  "path": "section/323",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "323",
  "heading": "Reckoning of periods.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act—\n(a) in reckoning any period which is therein expressed to be a period from or before a given date, that date is to be excluded; and\n(b) in reckoning any period therein mentioned of 8 days or less which apart from this provision would include a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday, that day is to be excluded.\n(2) In this section “bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 323 applied (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 25(1)(2); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/323",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:39.674923+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}