---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 459.2"
title: "29"
number: "459.2"
heading: "Additional time after service by mail."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/459.2"
---

# §459.2. Additional time after service by mail.


Whenever a party has the right or is required to do some act pursuant to these regulations within a prescribed period after service of a notice or other paper upon him and the notice or paper is served on him by mail, five (5) days shall be added to the prescribed period: Provided, however, That five (5) days shall not be added if any extension of time may have been granted.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7120, 7134; 22 U.S.C. 4117; 2 U.S.C. 1351(a)(1); Secretary's Order No. 03-2012, 77 FR 69376, November 16, 2012.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 15165, Mar. 7, 1980, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 50 FR 31311, Aug. 1, 1985.