{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-tribunal-appeals-and-amendment-rules-2011/rule-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-tribunal-appeals-and-amendment-rules-2011/rule-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2346",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals and Amendment) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-tribunal-appeals-and-amendment-rules-2011",
  "path": "rule/27",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Calculating time",
  "text": "(1) An act required by these Rules, a practice direction or a direction given under these Rules to be done on or by a particular day must be done by 4.30p.m. on that day.\n(2) If the time specified by these Rules, a practice direction or a direction given under these Rules for doing any act ends on a day other than a working day, the act is done in time if it is done on the next working day.\n(3) In this rule “working day” means any day except a Saturday or Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 27(1) substituted (25.11.2019) by The Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1185), rules 1, 49(d) (with rule 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 27 in force at 1.10.2011, see rule 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2346/rule/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:54:35.278032+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."
}