Daylight Saving Act 1971 (Qld)

595 ANNO VICESIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 39 of 1971 An Act to Provide for the time during a certain period being in advance of Standard Time and for matters incidental thereto [ASSENTED TO 21ST OCTOBER, 1971] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen ' s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows:- 1. Short title . This Act may be cited as the Daylight Saving Act 1971. 2. Interpretation . In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears,- standard time " means the time declared by The Standard TimeAct of1894 to be standard time throughout this State; " summer time " means the time to be observed throughout this State as prescribed by this Act. 3. Advance of time . (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in The Standard Time Act of1894, from the hour of two o'clock in the morning of Sunday the thirty-first day of October, 1971, until the hour of two o'clock in the morning of Sunday the twenty-seventh day of February, 1972, summer time shall, throughout the State, be one hour in advance of standard time, and shall be observed accordingly. (2) In this section, the expression " the hour of two o'clock in the morning " means that hour as determined by standard time.

596 Daylight Saving Act 1971, No. 39 4. Construction of expressions of time in Acts, etc. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law of the State- (a) wherever any expression of time occurs in any Act, Proclamation, Order in Council, regulation, rule, by-law, ordinance, order, determination or notice or in any contract or agreement (whether made orally or in writing) or in any deed or other instrument or document whatsoever; or (b) whenever the doing or not doing of any act or thing or the occurrence of 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 the period during which summer time is declared by this Act to be in advance of standard time, be held to be, and shall be determined by reference to, summer time. 5. Savings . (1) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the provisions of The Standard Time Act of1894 are not affected by this Act. (2) Nothing in this Act affects the use of standard time for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology or navigation, or the construction of any document mentioning or referring to a point of time in connexion with any of those purposes.