{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991/section-157",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991/section-157.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/22",
  "legislation_title": "New Roads and Street Works Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991",
  "path": "section/157",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "157",
  "heading": "Reckoning of periods.",
  "text": "(1) In reckoning for the purposes of this Part a period expressed as a period from or before a given date, that date shall be excluded.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part a working day means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday; and a notice given after 4.30 p.m. on a working day shall be treated as given on the next working day.\n(3) In subsection (2) a “bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in the locality in which the road in question is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/22/section/157",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:08.105882+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."
}