Daylight Saving Act 1946 (WA)

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

10° GEO. VI., No. XVI.

No. 16 of 1946.

AN ACT to provide for the time within a certain area of the State being, in certain circumstances, in advance of standard time during certain periods.

[Assented to 13th November, 19461

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Daylight Saving

Act, 1946.

fnternretation

cf. Common-	2.	In this Act, the expression "daylight saving time"
wealth

St. itutory	means the time to be observed in the State in pursuance
Rules No. 323
of 194r and	of this Act:
No. 241 of

1946.] Daylight Saring. [No. 16.

Advance of

3. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, the Governor may by proclamation declare

time during

certain

periods.

Mid, and 12

that, from and after a time and date to be specified in 13 Geo.

the proclamation, and until such other time and date	cf. 59, Viet.,
V. c. 22 5. 1.

as the Governor shall by the same or subsequent pro-	s3.
clamation so declare, daylight saving time shall within an area having a radius of thirty-five miles from the General Post Office at Perth, be such time not exceeding two hours in advance of the standard time of the State as the Governor shall specify, and any such proclamation shall have effect according to its tenor.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law of the State

(a) wherever any expression of time occurs in any Act, Order in Council, proclamation, regula- tion, rule, by-law, order, contract (written or oral), notice, or deed, or in any other document or instrument whatsoever ; or

(b) whenever doing or not doing anything at a certain time of day or night, or during a certain part of the day or night. has an effect in law,

that time shall, unless it is otherwise expressly stated, with respect to any period during which daylight saving time is declared by this Act to be in advance of the standard time of the State, and within the area afore- said, be held to be daylight saving time.

(3) Nothing in tins Act shall affect the use of the standard time of the State for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology or navigation, or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to time in con- nection with any of such purposes.