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A BILL

[No. 43:- 24.10.39.-1.]

INTITULED

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An Ordinance to amend the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911,

so as to provide for the alteration of standard time in this Colony by resolution of the Legislative Council.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1939.

2. Section 28 (1) of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, Amendment is amended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof:

Provided that the Legislative Council may from time to time declare by resolution that the mean time of some other meridian east of Greenwich shall be used as standard time in the Colony in which case and for so long as the resolution remains in force and unrescinded the expression "standard time" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the resolution.

of Ordin- ance No. 31 of 1911, s. 28 (1).

Objects and Reasons.

1. This Bill, if passed, will enable standard time in the Colony to be regulated by resolution of the Legislative Council, so that daylight saving may be effected without regard to the Season of the year as it has to be in the United Kingdom under the Summer Time Acts, 1922 to 1925.

2. Although the daylight period in the Colony is longer in the Summer than in the Winter, it is considered that some daylight saving may be effected by advancing standard time throughout the year.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

October, 1939.