Standard Time Amendment (Daylight Saving) Act 2005 (NSW)

An Act to amend the Standard Time Act 1987 to enable the daylight saving period to be prescribed by regulation and to extend this period by one week in the year 2006; and for other purposes.

1Name of Act

This Act is the Standard Time Amendment (Daylight Saving) Act 2005.

2Commencement

This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act.

3Amendment of Standard Time Act 1987 No 149

The Standard Time Act 1987 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1Amendments

(Section 3)

[1]Section 2 Definitions

Omit the definition of summer time period. Insert instead:

summer time period—see section 2A.

[2]Section 2A

Insert after section 2:

2ASummer time period—definition(1)

In this Act, summer time period means:

• (a)

  a period starting at 2 am on the last Sunday in October in each year and ending at 2 am on the last Sunday in the following March, or

• (b)

  if a summer time period is prescribed by the regulations—that prescribed period.

(2)

Despite subsection (1), the summer time period commencing in the year 2005 is taken to be the period starting at 2 am on Sunday 30 October 2005 and ending at 2 am on Sunday 2 April 2006.

[3]Section 9 Summer time in Lord Howe Island

Omit “one hour” from section 9 (1) (a). Insert instead “30 minutes”.

[4]Section 13

Insert after section 12:

13Regulations

The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.