The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Discipline) Rules 1964

Time

63.  Where any act is required by these rules to be done by the complainant or the promoter or the accused within a specified period, he may apply to the registrar for an enlargement or abridgement of that period and an application for enlargement may be made notwithstanding that the period has expired.

64.—(1) Where any act is required by these rules to be done within a specified period after a specified date or event, the period shall begin immediately after that date or, as the case may be, immediately after the day on which that event occurred.

(2) Where these rules require not less than a specified number of days' notice to be given of any proceeding, at least that number of days must intervene between the day on which the notice is served and the day fixed for that proceeding.

(3) Where these rules require the time fixed for any proceeding to be not less than a specified number of days after a specified event, at least that number of days must intervene between the day on which the event occurred and the day fixed for the proceeding.

(4) In calculating, for the purposes of these rules, any period or number of days not exceeding 7 days, any Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday shall be disregarded.

In this paragraph “Bank Holiday” means a day which is, or is to be observed as, a Bank Holiday, or a holiday, under the Bank Holidays Act 1871 or the Holidays Extension Act 1875, in England and Wales, and includes Christmas Day and Good Friday.