The Asylum Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1996

Time

42.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any notice or other document that is sent or served under these Rules shall be deemed to have been received —

(a) where the notice or other document is sent by post from within the United Kingdom, on the second day after which it was sent regardless of when or whether it was received;

(b) where the notice or other document is sent by post from outside the United Kingdom, on the fifteenth day after which it was sent regardless of when or whether it was received; and

(c) in any other case, on the day on which the notice or other document was served.

(2) Where under these Rules a notice or other document is sent by post to the appellate authority, it shall be deemed to have been received on the day on which it was in fact received by the authority.

(3) For the purposes of these Rules, a notice or other document is received by the authority when it is received by any person employed as a clerk to the authority.

(4) Where under these Rules, an act is to be done not later than a specified period after any event, the period shall be calculated from the expiry of the day on which the event occurred.

(5) Where the time provided by these Rules by which any act must be done expires on a Saturday, Sunday or a bank holiday, Christmas Day or Good Friday, the act shall be done in time if done on the next working day.

(6) Where, apart from this paragraph, the period in question being a period of 10 days or less would include a Saturday, Sunday or bank holiday, Christmas Day or Good Friday, that day shall be excluded.

(7) In this rule, “bank holiday” means a day that is specified in, or appointed under, the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1) as a bank holiday.

(1)

1971 c. 80.