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The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 2) 1972

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5.  Order 64 shall be amended as follows:—

(1) In the heading to rule 1 the words and vacations shall be omitted.

(2) Rule 1(1) shall be amended as follows:—

(a)In sub-paragraph (a) for the words “the day appointed for that purpose by Order in Council made under section 53 of the Act” there shall be substituted the words “1st October”.

(b)In sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) for the words “Whit Sunday” there shall in each case be substituted the words “the spring holiday”.

(3) For paragraphs (2) and (3) of Rule 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(2) In this rule “spring holiday” means the bank holiday falling on the last Monday in May or any day appointed instead of that day under section 1(2) of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1)..

(4) In rule 6(1), the words “and the vacations to be observed by them” shall be omitted.

(5) For paragraph (1) of rule 7, there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(1) The offices of the Supreme Court shall be open on every day of the year except—

(a)Saturdays and Sundays,

(b)Good Friday and the day after Easter Monday,

(c)Christmas Eve or—

(i)if that day is a Saturday, then 23rd December,

(ii)if that day is a Sunday or Tuesday, then 27th December,

(d)Christmas Day and, if that day is a Friday or Saturday, then 28th December,

(e)bank holidays in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, and

(f)such other days as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Family Division, may direct.

(1)

1971 c. 80.”

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