CCC Notice No. 2 of 2020
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the COMESA Competition Commission (“Commission”) shall observe the official holidays recognized by the host country, the Government of Malawi. Consequently, the Commission would like to notify all its esteemed customers that the Office of the Registrar would be closed in the Year 2020 on the following dates:-
| Official Holiday | Date |
| New Year’s Day | 1st January 2020 |
| John Chilembwe Day | 15th January 2020 |
| Martyrs’ Day | 3rd March 2020 |
| Good Friday | 10th April 2020 |
| Easter | 12th and 13th April 2020 |
| Labour Day | 1st May 2020 |
| Kamuzu Day | 14th May 2020 |
| Independence Day | 6th July 2020 |
| Mother’s Day | 15th October 2020 |
| Christmas | 25th December 2020 |
The Commission would like to remind the concerned persons that the closure of the Office of the Registrar would alter the computation of time by the Commission in accordance with Rule 3 (2) of the COMESA Competition Rules which read as follows:
“Where the time prescribed by or allowed under these Rules for doing an act or taking a proceeding expires on a Saturday or Sunday or on a day on which the office of the Registrar is closed, the act may be done or the proceeding may be taken on the first day following that is not a Saturday, Sunday or day on which that office is closed.”