1950_SUMMER_TIME_ORDINANCE — Page 1

Summer Time.

CHAPTER 152.

SUMMER TIME.

[CAP. 152

To enable the Governor in Council to provide for the observance of Summer Time.

[6th September, 1946.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Summer Time Ordinance.

Short title.

2. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order that Summer Time shall be observed as from 3.30 a.m. on a day specified in such order being a day not earlier than the 1st day of April; (b) by any order in which Summer Time has been ordered to be observed or by subsequent order to order that Summer Time shall cease to be observed as from 3.30 a.m. Standard Time on a day specified in such order, being a day not later than the 1st day of December.

(2) If in any year in which an order has been made under paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) no day has, before the 30th day of November in such year, been specified as the time from which Summer Time shall cease to be observed, then Standard Time shall be observed as from 3.30 a.m. Standard Time on the 1st day of December in such year.

3. In any year as from 3.30 a.m. Standard Time on the day specified in any order made under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 2 hereof and until the time as from which Summer Time shall under this Ordinance cease to be observed in such year-

(a) the time for general purposes in Hong Kong shall be exactly nine hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time, that is to say, one hour in advance of the mean time of the 120th Meridian east of Greenwich and one hour in advance of Standard Time;

(b) reference to a point of time in any enactment or in any by-law, deed, notice or other document whatsoever shall be construed accordingly.

The Governor in Council may in any year order when Summer Time is to be observed or cease.

Definition of Summer Time and relevant construction of references.

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