Text:Tribunal rule 12
Calculating time
12.—(1) An act required by these Rules, a practice direction or a direction to be done on or by a particular day must be done by 5pm on that day.
(2) If the time specified by these Rules, a practice direction or a direction 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.
(3) In a special educational needs case [or a disability discrimination in schools case]—[1]
- (a) if the time for starting proceedings by providing the application notice to the Tribunal under rule 20 (the application notice) ends on a day from 25th December to 1st January inclusive, or on any day in August, the application notice is provided in time if it is provided to the Tribunal on the first working day after 1st January or 31st August, as appropriate; and
- (b) the days from 25th December to 1st January inclusive and any day in August must not be counted when calculating the time by which any other act must be done.
[(3A) In a disability discrimination in schools case, the days from 25th December to 1st January inclusive and any day in August must not be counted when calculating the time by which any act must be done, other than the time for starting proceedings by providing the application notice to the Tribunal under rule 20 (the application notice).][1]
(4) [Paragraph (3)(b) does Paragraphs (3)(b) and (3A) do][1] not apply where the Tribunal directs that an act must be done by or on a specified date.
Amendments
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020, 21/7/20]]
Last updated: 16/11/22