Clause 31

Section 66 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsections:“(1A) Rules made under subsection (1) may specify the hour at which the Registry shall be deemed to be closed on any day for the purposes of the transaction by the public of business under this Act or any rules made thereunder or of any class of such business, and may specify days as excluded days for any such purposes.(1B) Any business done under this Act or any rules made thereunder on any day after the hour so specified in relation to business of that class, or on a day which is an excluded day in relation to business of that class, shall be deemed to have been done on the next following day not being an excluded day; and where the time for doing anything under this Act or any rules made thereunder expires on an excluded day, that time shall be extended to the next following day not being an excluded day.”.