ANNEX TO EXPLANATORY NOTES: PATENTS ACT 2004:AMENDMENTS TO THE PATENTS ACT 1977 Section 120 – Hours of business and excluded days
(1)Rules may specify The comptroller may give directions specifying the hour at which the Patent Office shall be taken to be closed on any day for purposes of the transaction by the public of business under this Act or of any class of such business, and may specify and the directions may specify days as excluded days for any such purposes.
(2)Any business done under this Act 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 taken to have been done on the next following day not being an excluded day; and where the time for doing anything under this Act expires on an excluded day that time shall be extended to the next following day not being an excluded day.
(3)Directions under this section shall be published in the prescribed manner.