22 Computation of time
expires or falls on a holiday, the thing may be done on the day next
following that is not a holiday.
(2) If in an enactment the time limited for registration or filing of
an instrument, or for the doing of anything, expires or falls on a day
on which the office or place in which the instrument or thing is
required to be registered, filed or done is not open during its regular
hours of business, the instrument or thing may be registered, filed
or done on the day next following on which the office or place is
open.
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(3) If an enactment contains a reference to a number of days
expressed to be clear days or to "at least" or "not less than" a
number of days between 2 events, in calculating the number of
days, the days on which the events happen shall be excluded.
(4) If an enactment contains a reference to a number of days not
expressed to be clear days or "at least" or "not less than" a number
of days between 2 events, in calculating the number of days, the
day on which the first event happens shall be excluded and the day
on which the 2nd event happens shall be included.
(5) If in an enactment a time is expressed to begin or end at, on or
with a specified day or to continue to or until a specified day, the
time includes that day.
(6) If in an enactment a time is expressed to begin after or to be
from a specified day, the time does not include that day.
(7) If an enactment provides that anything is to be done within a
time after, from, of or before a specified day, the time does not
include that day.
(8) If an enactment contains a reference to a period of time
consisting of a number of months after or before a specified day,
the number of months shall be counted from, but not so as to
include, the month in which the specified day falls, and the period
shall be reckoned as being limited by and including
(a) the day immediately after or before the specified day,
according as the period follows or precedes the specified
day, and
(b) the day in the last month so counted having the same
calendar number as the specified day, but if that last month
has no day with the same calendar number, then the last day
of that month.
(9) For the purpose of construing a reference in an enactment to a
specified age expressed as a number of years, a person is deemed to
have attained the specified age at the beginning of the relevant
anniversary of the day of the person's birth.
RSA 1980 cI-7 s22