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The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016

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Computation of time

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7.—(1) In calculating any period of time (other than a year) for the purposes of this Part, the following are to be disregarded—

(a)Saturdays and Sundays,

(b)Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday and any other day that is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1) in any part of the United Kingdom,

(c)any day that is a bank holiday or public holiday in Gibraltar under the Gibraltar Acts titled the Banking and Financial Dealings Act(2) and the Interpretation and General Clauses Act(3), and

(d)any day appointed in any part of the United Kingdom or Gibraltar as a day of public thanksgiving or mourning.

(2) In relation to proceedings adjourned by a presiding officer under regulation 43 (riot or open violence)—

(a)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 (“the relevant part of the United Kingdom”),

(b)paragraph (1)(c) is to be treated as omitted, and

(c)the reference in paragraph (1)(d) to a day that is appointed as a day of public thanksgiving or mourning in any part of the United Kingdom or Gibraltar is to be read as a reference to a day that is appointed as a day of public thanksgiving or mourning in the relevant part of the United Kingdom.

(1)

1971 c.80. See section 1 and Schedule 1.

(2)

Gibraltar Principal Act 1973-20.

(3)

Gibraltar Principal Act 1962-08.

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