If you are a data controller anywhere in the UK, in receipt of a data subject access request under Article 15 of the UK GDPR (or any of the other data subject rights requests), and the request was received on 13, 14 or 15 May 2026, you may not be aware that the law allows you one extra day to respond.
This is because the King recently proclaimed an extra bank holiday on 15 June in Scotland to recognise its men's football team's presence at the World Cup.
So why is that relevant for the rest of the UK (or, indeed, anywhere in the world where a controller is subject to the UK GDPR)? Well, Article 4A says that references in the UK GDPR to a period expressed in hours, days, weeks, months or years are to be interpreted in accordance with Article 3 of the assimilated Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No. 1182/71 of the Council of 3 June 1971 determining the rules applicable to periods, dates and time limits (the "Periods of Time Regulation"). Article 3 of the Periods of Time Regulation says that "where the last day of a period…is a public holiday, Sunday or Saturday, the period shall end with the expiry of the last hour of the following working day". Article 2 of the Periods of Time Regulation explains that "‘public holidays’ means a public holiday in any part of the United Kingdom" (emphasis added).
And so it is that, if a controller in England, or Wales, or Northern Ireland (or anywhere in the world, if it is subject to the extra-territorial provisions of the UK GDPR), as well as Scotland, received a DSAR on 13, 14 or 15 May this year, they will get an extra day to deal with it. Whether they support the Scotland national football team or not.