Commencement and termination of time: 'from' excludes the initial day and 'to' includes the terminal day in statutes. The rule provides that, in construing temporal expressions in Central Acts and Regulations, the word 'from' excludes the first day or initial unit and the word 'to' includes the last day or terminal unit; this applies to Central Acts and Regulations enacted after the commencement of the General Clauses Act and is stated to extend to Acts made after January 3, 1868 and Regulations made on or after January 14, 1887.