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PART XII
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)
carrying out any transaction referred to in rule 78A(2)(a);
(b)
giving, sending to, filing with or serving on the Registrar or Registry any document referred to in rule 78A(2)(b); or
(c)
giving, sending to or serving on any person by the Registrar or Registry any notice or other document referred to in rule 78A(2)(c),
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.
(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.
(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) Subject to paragraph (6) of rule 7, where a document referred to in that paragraph —
(a)
is transmitted to the Registrar or Registry by means of facsimile transmission; and
(b)
is received —
(i)
by any facsimile machine designated by the Registry for the receipt of such transmissions; and
(ii)
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 that document by means of facsimile transmission,
that document shall be treated as sent to or filed with, and received by, the Registry at that time and on that day.
(6B) For the purposes of paragraph (6A) —
(a)
a document shall be treated as sent to or filed with, and received by, the Registry if and only if all sheets comprising the complete document are received by the facsimile machine referred to in that paragraph; and
(b)
the date and time of receipt of the document, as recorded by the facsimile machine referred to in that paragraph, shall, until the contrary is proved, be treated as the date and time when the document was sent to or filed with, and received by, the Registry.
(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.
Excluded days
80. [Deleted by S 370/2004]
80A.
—(1) Where, on any day, there is an interruption in —
(a)
the postal service of Singapore;
(b)
the operation of the Registry; or
(c)
the operation of the electronic online system,
the Registrar may issue practice directions to declare that day as one on which there has been an “interruption” and, where any period of time specified in the Act or these Rules for the giving, sending, filing or serving of any notice, application or other document expires on a day so declared, the period shall be extended to the first day next following (not being an excluded day) which is not so declared.
(2) [Deleted by S 852/2005]
(3) If in any case the Registrar is satisfied that the failure to give, send, file or serve any notice, application or other document within the period specified in the Act or these Rules was wholly or mainly attributable to a failure of or delay in the postal service of Singapore or the electronic online system, the Registrar may, if he thinks fit and upon such terms as he may direct, extend the period so that it ends on the day of the receipt by the addressee of the notice, application or other document or, if the day of such receipt is an excluded day, on the first following day which is not an excluded day.
(4) The Registrar shall give notice of an extension referred to in paragraph (3) to all parties to the matter.