Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

STANDARD TIME AND SUMMER TIME ACT 1972 - SECT 7

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a legal instrument refers (expressly or impliedly) to a time; or

        (b)     the doing or failure to do anything at, before or after a time has an effect in law.

    (2)     The time must be worked out using—

        (a)     ACT standard time; or

        (b)     if the time is in relation to a summer time period—ACT summer time.

    (3)     However, subsection (2) does not apply to a reference in a legal instrument if the legal instrument or another legal instrument expressly, or by a manifest contrary intention, provides for the reference to have another meaning.

    (4)     Also, subsection (2) (b) does not affect—

        (a)     the use of ACT standard time for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology or navigation, or

        (b)     the meaning of a reference in a document to a time in relation to any of those purposes.

    (5)     To remove any doubt, a reference in this section to a "time" includes a reference to a period of time.

    (6)     This section applies to a legal instrument even though the instrument was made before the commencement of this section.