Compliance with time limits
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53(1)For the purposes of this Part and Part 7 a person is not to be regarded as having failed to do anything required to be done within a particular period of time if—
(a)the person had a reasonable excuse for not doing it within that period, and
(b)if the excuse ceased to exist, the person did it without unreasonable delay after the excuse ceased to exist.
(2)Where sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies, any further time limit running from the end of the period concerned is instead to run from the time when the thing in question was actually done.