Times (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

L.N. 162 of 2020

LEGAL AND OTHER TIME PERIODS

(SUSPENSION AND INTERRUPTION) ACT, 2020

(CAP. 609)

General Provisions applying to the Suspension of Legal and Judicial

Times (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by article 3 of

the General Provisions applying to the Suspension of Legal and

Judicial Times Regulations, 2020, the Minister responsible for justice

has made the following regulations

The title of these regulations is the General Provisions Title.

applying to the Suspension of Legal and Judicial Times (Amendment)

Regulations, 2020, and these regulations shall be read and construed as

one with the General Provisions applying to the Suspension of Legal L.N. 141 of

and Judicial Times Regulations, 2020, hereinafter referred to as the 2020.

"principal regulations".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations, shall be amended Amends

regulation 3 of

as follows

the principal

Regulations.

(a)

in sub-regulation (1) thereof

(i) immediately after the word "period", there shall

be added the words "which is affected by or otherwise,

subject to the Closure of the Courts of Justice Order:";

(ii) in paragraph (a) thereof, immediately after the

word "period;" there shall be added the word "and";

(iii) paragraph (b) thereof, shall be substituted by

the following new paragraph

"(b) decreed or otherwise ordered by any

court;";

(iv) paragraph (c) thereof, shall be deleted;

(b) sub-regulations (2), (3) and (4) thereof, shall be

renumbered as sub-regulations (3), (4) and (5) respectively and

the present sub-regulation (5) shall be deleted;

(c) immediately after sub-regulation (1) thereof, there

shall be added the following new sub-regulation

"(2) These regulations shall also suspend the

running of any time period established in any agreement

(whether a private writing or a public deed), including any

time period for the performance of any obligation set out in

such agreement, if and to the extent that the Closure of the

Courts of Justice Order has a direct effect on the ability of

any party to exercise its rights or to perform its obligations

thereunder.";

(d) sub-regulation (4) thereof, as renumbered shall be

substituted by the following new sub-regulation

"(4) Any time period suspended pursuant to sub-

regulation (2), shall remain suspended until the twentieth

(20th) day following the repeal of the said order of the

Superintendent and shall thereafter continue to run.";

(e) sub-regulation (5) thereof, as renumbered, shall be

amended as follows

(i) the words "For the avoidance of doubt, but

without prejudice to the generality of sub-regulation (1),

the suspension in sub-regulation (1) shall apply to each of

the following:", shall be substituted by the words "For the

avoidance of doubt, but without prejudice to the generality

of sub-regulation (2), the suspension in sub-regulation (2),

and the period of suspension mentioned in sub-regulation

(4), shall apply to each of the following:"; and

(ii) paragraph (e) thereof, shall be substituted by

the following

"(e) the running of time with respect to the

expiration of any registered promise of sale

agreement".

Immediately after regulation 4 of the principal regulations,

there shall be added the following new regulation

The suspension established by means of

these regulations and its effects shall be deemed to

have started to run from 16th March 2020.".

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