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Western Australia Standard Time Bill 2005 CONTENTS Part 1 -- Preliminary 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 3. Definitions 2 Part 2 -- Standard Time 4. Standard time throughout Western Australia 3 5. Construction of references to time in legal instruments 3 Part 3 -- Repeal and consequential amendments 6. Standard Time Act 1895 repealed 4 7. Western Australian Marine (Sea Dumping) Regulations 1982 amended 4 054--2 page i Western Australia LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (As amended in Committee) Standard Time Bill 2005 A Bill for An Act to -- • provide for standard time to be determined by reference to Co-ordinated Universal Time; • repeal the Standard Time Act 1895; and • consequentially amend the Western Australian Marine (Sea Dumping) Regulations 1982. The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows: page 1 Standard Time Bill 2005 Part 1 Preliminary s. 1 Part 1 -- Preliminary 1. Short title This is the Standard Time Act 2005. 2. Commencement 5 This Act comes into operation on the day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. 3. Definitions In this Act -- "Co-ordinated Universal Time" means Co-ordinated 10 Universal Time (UTC) as determined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and maintained under section 8AA of the National Measurement Act 1960 of the Commonwealth; "legal instrument" means -- 15 (a) an Act; (b) a regulation, rule, proclamation, local law, by-law, order, notice or other instrument made under an Act; (c) a contract or agreement (whether oral or in writing or both); or 20 (d) any deed or other instrument having legal effect. page 2 Standard Time Bill 2005 Standard Time Part 2 s. 4 Part 2 -- Standard Time 4. Standard time throughout Western Australia Standard time throughout Western Australia is 8 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time. 5 5. Construction of references to time in legal instruments (1) A reference (express or implied) in any legal instrument to any time or period of time is to be construed as a reference to -- (a) standard time throughout Western Australia as declared by this Act; or 10 (b) that period as determined by reference to standard time throughout Western Australia as declared by this Act. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a reference to any time or period of time that is expressly required by a legal instrument to be construed in some other way. 15 (3) This section applies to a legal instrument even though it was made before the commencement of this Act. page 3 Standard Time Bill 2005 Part 3 Repeal and consequential amendments s. 6 Part 3 -- Repeal and consequential amendments 6. Standard Time Act 1895 repealed The Standard Time Act 1895 is repealed. 7. Western Australian Marine (Sea Dumping) Regulations 1982 5 amended (1) The amendments in this section are to the Western Australian Marine (Sea Dumping) Regulations 1982*. [* Reprint 1 as at 7 May 2004.] (2) Regulation 4(b) is amended by deleting "Greenwich Mean 10 Time," and inserting instead -- " Co-ordinated Universal Time as defined in the Standard Time Act 2005 section 3, ". 15
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