Companies Act, 1956
Sec 74 - Manner
of reckoning fifth, eighth and tenth days in sections 72 and 73
In reckoning for the purposes of sections 72 and 73, the fifth
day, or the eighth day, after another day, any intervening day which is a
public holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), shall
be disregarded, and if the fifth, or eighth day (as so reckoned) is itself such
a public holiday, there shall for the said purposes be substituted the first
day thereafter which is not such a holiday.