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STANDARD TIME BILL 2005

                      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   Standard Time Act 1895 repealed                            4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




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                     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:




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     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.




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                                                         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.




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     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,
                                                                             ".
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