Paragraph 2

(1)

In calculating any period of time (other than a year) for the purposes of these rules the following are to be disregarded—

(a)

Saturdays and Sundays,

(b)

Good Friday and any other day that is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom, and

(c)

any day appointed as a day of public thanksgiving or mourning.

(2)

In relation to proceedings adjourned by a presiding officer under rule 37 (riot or open violence), the reference in paragraph (1)(b) to a day that is a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom is to be read as a reference to a day that is a bank holiday in the part of the United Kingdom where the proceedings are adjourned.