34

 

Third Session, 45th General Assembly

55 Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 34

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STANDARD TIME ACT

Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................

Second Reading.................................................................................................................................

Committee............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE JACK BYRNE

Minister of Municipal Affairs

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

  

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Standard Time Act to provide that daylight time in the province shall be for the period each year that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may establish by regulation.

The Bill would also provide that beginning in 2007 and continuing until changed by regulation daylight time in the province would begin one minute after 12 a.m. of the second Sunday in March and end one minute after 12 a.m. of the first Sunday in November.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STANDARD TIME ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.3 Amdt.
Daylight time


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 S-23

        1. Subsection 3(1) of the Standard Time Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Daylight time

        3. (1) During the period in each year that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by regulation establish, time in the province shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours later than Greenwich mean solar time.

          (1.1)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), beginning in the year 2007 and continuing until changed under subsection (1), during the period in each year between one minute after 12 a.m. of the second Sunday in March and one minute after 12 a.m. of the first Sunday in November time in the province shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours later than Greenwich mean solar time.