Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 34

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

STANDARD TIME ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

JACK BYRNE

Minister of Municipal Affairs

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Standard Time Act to provide that daylight

time in the province shall be for the period each year that the Lieutenant-Governor

in Council may establish by regulation.

The Bill would also provide that

beginning in 2007 and continuing until changed by regulation daylight time in

the province would begin one minute after 12 a.m. of the second Sunday in

March and end one minute after 12 a.m. of the first Sunday in

November.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STANDARD TIME ACT

Analysis

1. S.3 Amdt.

Daylight time

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 S-23

1. Subsection 3(1) of the Standard Time Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Daylight time

(1) During

the period in each year that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by

regulation establish, time in the province shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours

later than Greenwich mean solar time.

(1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), beginning in

the year 2007 and continuing until changed under subsection (1), during the

period in each year between one minute after 12 a.m. of the second Sunday in March

and one minute after 12 a.m. of the first Sunday in November time in the

province shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours later than Greenwich mean solar time.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer