NI Act: Are Sundays & Holidays Excluded in the 30-Day Filing Period?

The position, therefore, is this: that where the period exceeds six days, public holidays and Sundays are included. This is in fact the usual rule of interpretation, for Sundays and public holidays are never excluded unless there is special mention of the fact. ... He referred to the exclusion of Sundays in certain cases, but that....

In the computation of time, within which an act is to be done or a proceeding taken, it is only if the limited period does not exceed 6 days, that intervening Sundays and public holidays are to be excluded. ... First, he points out that the period includes one public holiday, July 31, and three Sundays, namely, August 1, 8, and 22. He claims that th....

2025 Supreme(SRI)(SC) 9913

declared under the Holidays Act No. 29 of 1971 (“Holidays Act”) such as Christmas and Thai Pongal are not included as dates to be excluded when computing time for purposes of Section 6(1) of the Act, it would tantamount to a breach of the duty cast on the State to protect the ... According to the English text, Sundays and Public Holidays#HL_E....

The rule as to these is that the first day is excluded from computation, while all Sundays and holidays are included, and that the last day is also included, but that if it shall fall on a Sunday the party is allowed to do the act on the next Court day. ... They followed the ruling of the Full Court in the case of Caste Lebbe v. Idroos Lebbe Marikar reported in 9 ....

The Legislature has farther provided that in the ascertainment of that period the day upon which the judgment was pronounced shall be excluded, and that 19M. there shall also be excluded the day when the petition is presented and Sundays, and public holidays. ... It is well settled law that in a case where a number of clear days is allowed for the doing of an #HL_....

2024 Supreme(Online)(DEL) 998

During this period, 18 days were Sundays and 7 days were gazetted holidays, working out to a total of 25 days. 7. ... If gazetted holidays and Sundays are excluded, Mr. Mahapatra submits that the excess leave availed by the petitioner, would only be of 24 days. 5. ... He points out that, in arriving at the f....

2023 Supreme(SRI)(SC) 20792

The Court of Appeal then proceeded to hold that Sundays and public holidays should not be excluded when calculating the said period of 14 days referred to in section 86(2) of the Civil Procedure Code. ... of 14 days had expired, on the ground that intervening holidays had to be excluded. ... also contain identical time-limit (14-day period#H....

The former is a case on this very form of summons and it has been held that Sundays and Public Holidays are not excluded in the computation of the seven days. ... and Public Holidays should be excluded. ... J., dissenting), that, in computing the period within which the defendants were required to make an application for leave to appear and defend....

2022 Supreme(SRI)(CA) 572

Having regard to the foregoing matter, His Lordship is of the opinion that in the computation on the 60 days set out in Section 755(3), Sundays and public holidays are not to be excluded and should be included in the calculation of the 60-day period. ... , the day on which the petition is presented to Court, and all intervening Sundays and public holidays#HL_....

The fourteen days from the date of the receipt of the record by the Court below should be reckoned inclusive of Sundays and public holidays. It is conceded that if such days be excluded the appeal is in time. ... Appeal-Leave to appeal in Court of Requests' case-Time within which the appeal should be perfected-Sundays and public holidays not #HL_....

2017 0 Supreme(UK) 97

The Sundays and paid holidays were required to be included while calculating 240 days. No specific evidence has been led by the employer to rebut the evidence led by the workman. The employer has not placed on record all the copies of the muster rolls w.e.f. 01.05.1989 to 28.06.1990.

2007 4 Supreme 299

However, the aforesaid sanction did not exceed 25 days in one stretch of period under any circumstances and the period of Sundays and holidays were also included in the above period. He was engaged as per the requirement of the department on the basis of specific sanction of muster roll vacancies from time to time. After about five years respondent no.1 sought for a reference and claimed that his services were to be regularized. As the services of the respondent no.1 were no ....

2006 0 Supreme(Cal) 616

Mr. Mukherjee also relies upon the decision of Workman of American Express International Bank corpn. (supra) to submit that Sundays and other holidays are to be included in counting the actual working days of the respondent No. 3 under the petitioner company.

Consumer

There was Saturday and Sunday, on which day there is no sitting of the Commission. Therefore, although the period of limitation is 30 days, last 2 days holidays are excluded and also either the date of judgment or date of filing of appeal is excluded, i.e., one day either at this end or that end, the appeal is well within time. The last two days on which there was no sitting are to be excluded for the purposes of limitation. Then on 17.12.2003 there was application for taking....

2003 0 Supreme(P&H) 1227

But perusal of the mutation would not reveal the period of mortgage. Still further, there is no answer to the findings recorded by learned first appellate Court, as extracted in earlier part of the judgment wherein, it is held that original mortgage deed has not seen the light of the day and the learned counsel for the respondents has tried to prove the terms of the mortgage from the copy of the mutation placed on the record, in which, the date of mortgage was given as 5-10-1917. It ....