2018 Legislative Session: 3rd Session, 41st Parliament

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MS. LINDA LARSON

BILL M 201 – 2018

INTERPRETATION AMENDMENT ACT, 2018

Studies continue to be published about the negative impacts on our health, studies that have documented an increase in both heart attacks and car accidents in the days immediately following the time shift.

Studies have also identified losses to the economy from a lack of productivity directly related to the time shift.

The European Parliament has entered into the discussion of abolishing this practice at the request of Finland following a petition of 70,000 signatures from that country.

The City of Grand Forks introduced a resolution at the UBCM convention last fall to eliminate Daylight Savings time, which was endorsed by the membership. A subsequent online survey showed 85% of responders were supportive of the elimination of Daylight Savings time.

An online petition from Kamloops has more than 25,000 signatures in support of this change.

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Section 26 (

a) of the

Interpretation Act, R.S.B.C., 1996, c. 238, is repealed.

Section 25 (7) is amended by striking out " , unless Daylight Saving time is being used or observed on that day ".

3 The

Interpretation Act Daylight Saving Time Regulation, B.C. Reg. 136/2006 is repealed.

Consequential Amendments

Community Charter

Section 3 of the

Schedule of the Community Charter, S.B.C. 2003, c. 26, is amended by striking out " Mountain Daylight Time " in both places and by striking out " , as applicable ".

Election Act

Section 56 (3) of the Election Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 106, is amended by striking out " or Pacific Daylight time, as applicable ".

Section 75 (3) is amended by striking out " or Pacific Daylight time, as applicable ".

7 Form 1 of the

Schedule is amended by striking out [Pacific Daylight Time] wherever it appears.

Local Government Act

Section 3 of the Local Government Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 60, is amended by striking out " or Mountain Daylight Time " wherever it appears and by striking out " , as applicable ".

Vancouver Charter

Section 194 of the Vancouver Charter, S.B.C. 1953, c. 55, is amended by striking out " prescribe a period in each year for which the time for general purposes in the city shall be seven hours behind Greenwich time, and ".

Wildfire Act

Schedule 3 of the Wildfire Act, Wildfire Regulation, B.C. Reg. 38/2005, is amended by striking out " PDT (Pacific Daylight Saving Time) " wherever it appears and substituting " PST (Pacific Standard Time) ".

11 A reference in any Act, other than this Act, or in any regulation, rule, order, by-law, agreement or other instrument or document, to " Pacific Daylight Time, Pacific Daylight time or PDT " shall be read unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to " Pacific Standard Time, Pacific Standard time or PST ".

Explanatory Note

Studies continue to be published about the negative impacts on our health, studies that have documented an increase in both heart attacks and car accidents in the days immediately following the time shift.

Studies have also identified losses to the economy from a lack of productivity directly related to the time shift.

The European Parliament has entered into the discussion of abolishing this practice at the request of Finland following a petition of 70,000 signatures from that country.

The City of Grand Forks introduced a resolution at the UBCM convention last fall to eliminate Daylight Savings time, which was endorsed by the membership. A subsequent online survey showed 85% of responders were supportive of the elimination of Daylight Savings time.

An online petition from Kamloops has more than 25,000 signatures in support of this change.

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