Version incorporating amendments as at
31 May 2012
table of provisions
Section Page
1 Short title 1
2 Definitions 1
3 Advance of time 2
4 Constitution of expressions of time in Acts 2
5 Savings 3
6 Repeal of Daylight Saving Act 1971 3
ENDNOTES 4
General Information 4
Table of Amendments 5
Explanatory Details 6
Version No.014
Summer Time Act 1972
No. 8297 of 1972
Version incorporating amendments as at
31 May 2012
An Act to promote the greater Use of Daylight in certain Months of the Year and to provide for Matters incidental thereto.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Summer Time Act 1972.
2 Definitions
In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter—
S. 2 def. of standard time substituted by No. 17/2005 s. 6.
standard time means the time that is 10 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time;
Note
Under section 8AA of the National Measurement Act 1960 of the Commonwealth the Chief Metrologist is required to maintain Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) as determined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
S. 2 def. of summer time amended by No. 9962
s. 3(a).
summer time means the time to be observed throughout the State as fixed under this Act.
3 Advance of time
s. 3
S. 3(1) amended by No. 9962
s. 2(1).
(1) During the period commencing in any year on the day and at the time fixed for the purposes of this section by proclamation of the Governor in Council published in the Government Gazette and ending in the following year on the day and at the time fixed in the proclamation, summer time shall, throughout the State, be one hour in advance of standard time and shall be observed accordingly.
S. 3(2) substituted by No. 9962
s. 2(2).
(2) A proclamation under subsection subsection (1) may by a like proclamation be revoked or varied or be substituted by a further proclamation and whilst a proclamation remains in force it shall have effect from year to year in respect of the summer period fixed in the proclamation or as varied.
S. 4
amended by No. 9962
s. 3(b).
4 Constitution of expressions of time in Acts
Notwithstanding anything in any enactment, regulation, by-law, rule, proclamation, Order in Council, order or notice, or in any contract or agreement (whether made orally or in writing), or in any deed or other instrument, where any time or period of time is prescribed, specified or stipulated as the time at which, or the period of time for which or during which, or any part of which, the doing of any act matter or thing is required, permitted or forbidden, that time, period of time, or part of a period of time, as the case may be, shall, with respect to any period during which summer time is fixed under this Act to be in advance of standard time, be held to be, and shall be determined by reference to, summer time unless the contrary is expressed, provided, or stipulated in that enactment, regulation, by-law, rule, proclamation, Order in Council, order, notice, contract, agreement, deed or instrument.
5 Savings
s. 5
S. 5(1) amended by No. 57/1989
s. 3(Sch. item 191(a)(b)).
(1) Except as expressly provided in this Act the provisions of section 43 of the Supreme Court Act 1986 are not affected by this Act.
(2) Nothing in this Act affects the use of standard time for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology or navigation, or the construction of any document mentioning or referring to a point of time in connexion with any of those purposes.
6 Repeal of Daylight Saving Act 1971
The Daylight Saving Act 1971 is hereby repealed.
ENDNOTES
General Information
Endnotes
The Summer Time Act 1972 was assented to on 3 October 1972 and came into operation 3 October 1972.
Table of Amendments
Endnotes
This Version incorporates amendments made to the Summer Time Act 1972 by Acts and subordinate instruments.