{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996/section-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996/section-116.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/53",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996",
  "path": "section/116",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Reckoning periods of time.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part periods of time shall be reckoned as follows.\n(2) Where an 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 the period would include Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 is a bank holiday in England and Wales or, as the case may be, in Scotland, that day shall be excluded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 116 wholly in force; s. 116 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 150; s. 116 in force at 1.5.1998 by (E.W.) S.I. 1998/650, art. 2 and (S.) S.I. 1998/894, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/53/section/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:44.925414+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."
}