Hours of business and excluded days
79.—(1)  Subject to paragraph (4), any business done under the Act or these Rules —
(a)on any day after the hours of business of the Registry for that class of business; or
(b)on any day which is an excluded day for that class of business,
shall be taken to have been done on the next following day which is not an excluded day for that class of business.
(2)  Where the time for doing any business under the Act or these Rules expires on an excluded day for the doing of that class of business, that time shall be extended to the next following day which is not an excluded day for the doing of that class of business.
(3)  For the avoidance of doubt, where the time for —
(a)[Deleted by S 743/2014 wef 13/11/2014]
(b)giving, sending to, filing with or serving on the Registrar or Registry any document referred to in rule 78A(2); or
[S 743/2014 wef 13/11/2014]
[S 433/2020 wef 05/06/2020]
(c)giving, sending to or serving on any person by the Registrar or Registry any notice or other document referred to in rule 78A(2A),
[S 743/2014 wef 13/11/2014]
[S 433/2020 wef 05/06/2020]
expires on an excluded day, that time shall be extended to the next following day which is not an excluded day, notwithstanding the availability of the electronic online system.
[S 598/2008 wef 01/12/2008]
(4)  Where a document —
(a)is transmitted to the Registry by means of the electronic online system; and
(b)is received, by the server of that system set up to receive such transmissions, at any time before midnight on any day which is not an excluded day for the business of sending to or filing with the Registry any document by means of that system,
that document shall be treated as sent to or filed with, and received by, the Registry at that time and on that day.
[S 598/2008 wef 01/12/2008]
(5)  For the purposes of paragraph (4), the document shall be treated as sent to or filed with, and received by, the Registry if and only if the last byte of the transmission containing the document is received by the server referred to in that paragraph.
(6)  Any person who sends or files a document by means of the electronic online system may produce a record of transmission issued through that system as evidence of —
(a)the sending or filing of that document; and
(b)the date and time when the sending or filing took place.
(6A)  [Deleted by S 433/2020 wef 05/06/2020]
(6B)  [Deleted by S 433/2020 wef 05/06/2020]
(7)  In the Act and these Rules, “excluded day”, in relation to any specific class of business, means any day on which the Registry shall be taken to be closed for the purposes of the transaction by the public of that class of business.