SUMMER TIME ORDINANCE

SUMMER TIME ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 152.

SUMMER TIME.

To enable 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.

2. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in any year

(a)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 froni 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 what





soever shall unless the contrary is expressly stated be
deemed to refer to such point of time computed in accordance
with Summer Time.

4. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall affect the use of
Greenwich Mean Time or Standard Time for purposes of astronomy,
meteorology, or navigation or affect the construction of any document
mentioning or referring to a point of time in connexion with any of
those purposes.
14 of 1946. Short title. The Governor in Council may in any year order when Summer Time is to be observed or cease. Definition of Summer Time and construction of relevant references. [s. 3 cont.] Saving.

14 of 1946. Short title. The Governor in Council may in any year order when Summer Time is to be observed or cease. Definition of Summer Time and construction of relevant references. [s. 3 cont.] Saving.

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