Text:Upper Tribunal rule 12

Calculating time

12.—(1) An act required by these Rules, a practice direction or a direction to be done on or by a particular day must be done by 5pm on that day.

(2) If the time specified by these Rules, a practice direction or a direction for doing any act ends on a day other than a working day, the act is done in time if it is done on the next working day.

(3) In a special educational needs case or a disability discrimination in schools case, the following days must not be counted when calculating the time by which an act must be done—

(a) 25th December to 1st January inclusive; and

(b) any day in August.

(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply where the Upper Tribunal directs that an act must be done by or on a specified date.

[(5) In this rule—

“disability discrimination in schools case” means proceedings concerning disability discrimination in the education of a child or related matters; and

“special educational needs case” means proceedings concerning the education of a child who has or may have special educational needs.]

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