Time Zone (Seasonal Variation) Act 2006
TIME ZONE (SEASONAL VARIATION) ACT 2006
BERMUDA
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TIME ZONE (SEASONAL VARIATION) ACT 2006
Date of Assent: 26 June 2006
Operative Date: 1 January 2007
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
3 When Bermuda summer
time begins
4 When Bermuda summer
time ends
5 Application
6 Repeal
7 Commencement
WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal the Time Zone (Seasonal
Variation) Act (No.2) 1975, and replace it with the Time Zone (Seasonal
Variation) Act 2006:
Be it enacted by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Assembly of
Bermuda, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Time Zone (Seasonal Variation) Act
2006.
Interpretation
2 In this Act—
"Bermuda standard time" means the time fixed for general
purposes in Bermuda by the Time Zone Act 1929 [title 28
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item 14], that is to say four hours behind Greenwich Mean
Time;
“Bermuda summer time” means the time one hour in advance of
Bermuda standard time and three hours behind Greenwich
Mean Time.
When Bermuda summer begins
3 As from two o’clock, Bermuda standard time, in the morning of
the second Sunday in the month of March each year, the time for general
purposes in Bermuda shall be Bermuda summer time.
When Bermuda summer time ends
4 As from two o’clock, Bermuda summer time, in the morning of
the first Sunday in the month of November of each year, the time for
general purposes in Bermuda shall revert to Bermuda standard time.
Application
5 (1) Whenever any reference is made to a point in time in any
Act, resolve, bye-law, regulation, rule, order, deed, notice or other
document whatsoever, the time referred to shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, during the period that Bermuda summer time is in
effect, be deemed to be Bermuda summer time.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the use of Greenwich Mean
Time for the 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.
Repeal
6 The Time Zone (Seasonal Variation) Act (No. 2) 1975 is repealed.
Commencement
7 This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of January 2007.
