Manner of reckoning fifth, eighth and tenth days in sections and :
Section – 74. In reckoning for the purposes of sections and , 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.