Standard Time Act 1894 (SA)

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ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO SEPTIMO ET QUINQUA-
GESIMO OCTAVO
A.D. 1894.
No. 600.
An Act to establish a Standard of Time in South
Australia.

[Assen

fed to, December 21st, r 894.3

E it Enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and f m ~ b l e.

House of Assembly of South Australia, in this present Parliament

]B with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

assembled,

as fo l lob:

This Act may be cited as the cc Standard Time Act, 1894."

Short title.

2, This Act shall come into operation on a day to be appointed z;menoem@ntof

by the Governor, by Proclamation published in the Government

Gazette.

3. The mean time of the one hundred and thirty-fifth meridian The time of the one

of longitude east of Greenwich shall be deemed, and is hereby fifth meridian to be	hundred and thirty -
declared to be, standard time t h r o u e u t South Australia.	standard time.

4, Whenever any expression of time occurs in any Act, Order in The

t h e mention~d

Council, rule, regulation, or bv-law, or deed, or in any instrument i:sB$:;

whatsoever, and whenevcr t h e doing or not doing anything at a standard time.

certain time of day or night, or. during a certain part of the day or

the night, has an effect in law, such time shall, unless i t is otherwise

specifically stated, be held to be standard time throughout South

Australia, as declared by this Act.

I n the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to
this Bill.
KINTORE, Governor.

Adelaide :

By authority, C. E. BRIBTOW,

Government Printer, North-terraoe.

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