The Limitation Act, 1963
Where the prescribed period for any suit, appeal or application expires on a day when the court is closed, the suit, appeal or application may be instituted, preferred or made on the day when the court re-opens. Explanation.—A court shall be deemed to be closed on any day within the meaning of this section if during any part of its normal working hours it remains closed on that day.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1565/5/A1963-36.pdf, 353,329 bytes, sha256 1ad1f296…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-30. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (H1963-36.pdf) — the English 'A'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded. THE SCHEDULE (the periods-of-limitation table, Articles 1-137) is NOT ingested as sections — it is a tabular schedule, not sectional text; cite it from the official PDF. Spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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