# Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, Section 116: Reckoning periods of time.


(1) For the purposes of this Part periods of time shall be reckoned as follows.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/53/section/116 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996/section-116
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