{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-3/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-3/rule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Computation of time",
  "text": "(1) In computing any period of time for the purposes of the Timetable—\n(a) a Saturday or Sunday,\n(b) Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday, or\n(c) a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning,\nshall be disregarded, and any such day shall not be treated as a day for the purpose of any proceedings up to the completion of the poll nor shall the returning officer be obliged to proceed with the counting of votes on such a day.\n(2) In this rule, “bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 rule 4 in force at 27.3.2007, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1024/schedule/3/rule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:19.544645+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."
}