31 CFR § 800.203 - Business day.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t31/s800.203"
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title: "31 CFR § 800.203 - Business day."
title_number: 31
title_name: "Money and Finance: Treasury"
section_number: "800.203"
section_name: "Business day."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF INVESTMENT SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY"
part_number: "800"
part_name: "REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO CERTAIN INVESTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES BY FOREIGN PERSONS"
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last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "50 U.S.C. 4565; E.O. 11858, as amended, 73 FR 4677."
regulatory_source: "85 FR 3124, Jan. 17, 2020, unless otherwise noted."
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# 800.203 Business day.

The term *business day* means Monday through Friday, except the legal public holidays specified in 5 U.S.C. 6103, any day declared to be a holiday by federal statute or executive order, or any day with respect to which the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has announced that Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are closed. For purposes of calculating any deadline imposed by this part triggered by the submission of a party to a transaction under § 800.401(g)(2) or § 800.501(i), any submissions received after 5 p.m. Eastern Time are deemed to be submitted on the next business day.

See § 800.604 regarding the tolling of deadlines during a lapse in appropriations.