Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

BERMUDA
1975 : 75

TIME ZONE (SEASONAL VARIATION) ACT (No 2) 1975

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Interpretation

2 When Bermuda summer time begins

3 When Bermuda summer time ends

[18 December 1975]

[preamble and words of enactment omitted]

Interpretation

1 In this Act —

"Bermuda standard time" means the time fixed for general pur poses in Bermuda by the Time Zone Act 1929 [title 28 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 time begins

2 As from the point of time two o'clock, Bermuda standard time, in the morning of the first Sunday in the month of April each year, the time for general purposes in Bermuda shall be Bermuda summer time.

When Bermuda summer time ends

3 As from the point of time two o'clock, Bermuda summer time, in the morning of the last Sunday in the month of October of each year, the time for general purposes in Bermuda shall revert to Bermuda standard time.

4 Whenever any reference to a point of time occurs in any Act, re solve, bye-law, regulation, rule, order, deed, notice or other document whatsoever, the time referred to shall, unless the context otherwise re quires, during the period that Bermuda summer time is in effect, be deemed to be Bermuda summer time:

Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect the use of Green wich Mean Time for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology or naviga tion or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to a point of time in connection with any of those purposes.