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Summer Time Act

Commencement: 1 September 1983
Repealed


LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
REVISED EDITION 1988


CHAPTER 157


SUMMER TIME


Act 35 of 1982


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS


SECTION


1. Advance of time during certain period


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SUMMER TIME


To provide for summer time.


ADVANCE OF TIME DURING CERTAIN PERIOD


1. (1) The time for general purposes in Vanuatu shall, during the period of summer time be 12 hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time; and any reference to a specified point of time in any enactment or any legal document (whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this Act) shall be construed accordingly unless it is otherwise expressly provided.


(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the use of Greenwich Mean Time for purposes of astronomy, meteorology, navigation, or other purposes for which that time is adopted by international usage, or the construction of any document referring to a point of time in connection with any of those purposes.


For the purposes of this section the period of summer time shall be taken to be the period beginning at midnight local time on the fourth Saturday in September and ending at midnight local time on the fourth Saturday in March.


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