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ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1915 - SECT 27

27—Provisions as to limitation of time

        (1)         The time prescribed or allowed by any Act for any proceeding, or for the doing of any thing, or for suffering any thing, will be taken not to include the day of the act or event from or after which the time is to be calculated, but to include the day on which the proceeding is to be taken or the thing is to be done or suffered.

        (2)         If the time so prescribed or allowed falls or expires on a Saturday or Sunday, or on any public holiday, the time will be extended so as to fall or expire on the day next following the Saturday, Sunday or public holiday that is not itself a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.

        (3)         Where no time is prescribed or allowed within which any thing must be done, the thing must be done with all convenient speed and as often as the prescribed occasion arises.



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