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Section 10: Computation of time.

The General Clauses Act, 1897Central Act · Act 10 of 1897

(1) Where, by any [Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, any act or proceeding is directed or allowed to be done or taken in any Court or office on a certain day or within a prescribed period, then, if the Court or office is closed on that day or the last day of the prescribed period, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if it is done or taken on the next day afterwards on which the Court or office is open:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any act or proceeding to which the Indian Limitation Act, 1877 (15 of 1877), applies.

(2) This section applies also to all [Central Acts] and Regulations made on or after the fourteenth day of January, 1887.

Where this provision sits

ActThe General Clauses Act, 1897
Section10
Marginal noteComputation of time.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it13

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Acts of the Governor-General in Council".
  • other. . See now the Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963).
  • substituted. . Subs., ibid., for "Acts of the Governor-General in Council".

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