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Summer Time Act 1972

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 6 Cited in Amendments 20 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1972 c. 6
(1) (2) The period of summer time for the purposes of this Act is the period beginning at one o’clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in March and ending at one o’clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in October.(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, wherever any reference to a point of time occurs in any enactment, Order in Council, order, regulation, rule, byelaw, deed, notice or other document whatsoever, the time referred to shall, during the period of summer time, be taken to be the time as fixed for general purposes by (2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the use of Greenwich mean time for purposes of astronomy, meteorology, or navigation, or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to a point of time in connection with any of those purposes.(1) This Act shall apply to Northern Ireland in like manner as it applies to Great Britain.(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) Unless other provision is made by a law of the States of Jersey or of Guernsey or by an Act of Tynwald, as the case may be, this Act shall, subject to subsection (2) below, apply to the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Isle of Man in like manner as it applies to Great Britain.(2) An Order in Council

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