(1) If, for any
purpose, these rules —
(a)
prohibit, permit or require an act or thing to be done within, by, or before
the end of; or
(b)
otherwise prescribe, allow or provide for,
a period of time
before or after a particular day, act or event, the period is to be calculated
without counting that day, or the day of the act or event, as the case may be.
(2) Without limiting
subrule (1), in calculating how many days a particular day, act or event
is before or after another day, act or event, only the first day, or the day
of the first act or event, is to be counted.
(3) If the last day of
any period prescribed or allowed by these rules for an act or thing to be done
falls on a day that is not a business day in the place where the act or thing
is to be or may be done, the act or thing may be done on the first business
day in the place after that day.
(4) In calculating a
period of time for the purposes of these rules, the period beginning on
25 December in a year and ending at the end of 1 January in the next
year is not to be counted.