1956
Measurement of distances.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 34.
time.
No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
27. In the measurement of any distance for the purposes of Ordinance, that distance shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane.
References to 28. (1) Whenever any expression of time occurs in any enactment or in any legal document, the time referred to shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be held to be standard time.
Meaning of service by post.
Meaning of
The expression "standard time" means standard time as used in the Colony: that is to say, the mean time of the 120th meridian East of Greenwich, which is exactly eight hours in advance of Greenwich mean time.
(2) The expression "a.m." indicates the period between midnight and noon on the day succeeding; and the expression "p.m." indicates the period between noon and the midnight following; and where in any enactment two such expressions occur conjunctively in relation to any specified hours, or in conjunction with the words "sunrise", they shall be construed to relate to consecutive periods of time.
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29. Where any Ordinance authorises or requires any document to be served by post, whether the expression 'serve", or "give", or "send", or any other expression is used, then, unless the contrary intention appears, the service shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying, and posting a letter containing the document, and, unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
30. In any enactment expressions referring to writing or printing shall include, unless the contrary intention appears, writing, printing, lithography, photography, typewriting, and every other mode of representing words or figures in a visible form; but in the case of a book "printing" shall not include writing or typewriting.
Nothing in this section shall be taken to apply to signatures.