Planning and Development Act 2024

Running of time

402. (1) Subject to subsection (2), when calculating any period or time limit of one year or less specified by or under this Act the period between the 24th day of December and the 1st day of January, both days inclusive, shall be disregarded.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to periods or time limits stated in an enforcement notice (within the meaning of Part 11).

(3) Where the doing of a thing within a period or time limit specified by or under this Act requires an office of an appropriate authority, the Office of the Planning Regulator or the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority to be open, and the last day of the period or time limit specified is not a working day or is a day on which the office is closed, the thing shall be deemed to have been done before the expiry of the period or time limit if it is done on the next following day on which the office is open.