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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-38",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/864",
  "legislation_title": "The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025",
  "path": "article/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Computation of time for the purposes of Part 3",
  "text": "(1) Where the day or last day on which anything is required or permitted to be done, by or in pursuance of this Part, is an excluded day—\n(a) the requirement or permission is deemed to relate instead to the first day after that day that is not an excluded day, and\n(b) in computing any period of not more than 7 days for the purposes of this Part, any excluded day is to be disregarded.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an excluded day is—\n(a) a Saturday;\n(b) a Sunday;\n(c) Christmas Eve;\n(d) Christmas Day;\n(e) Good Friday;\n(f) a day that is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n(g) a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 38 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:06.457930+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."
}