Regulation 14 Time for compliance with requirements of Part I and regulations
Where—
(a)
an employee is outside the United Kingdom;
(b)
Part I or regulations made thereunder require any act to be done forthwith or on the happening of a certain event or within a specified time; and
(c)
because the employee is outside the United Kingdom he or his employer cannot comply with the requirement;
the employee or the employer, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have complied with it if he performs the act as soon as reasonably practicable.