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Advance
time by one hour throughout the year for an experimental period;
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and for connected purposes. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Time
for general purposes |
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Subject to section 3 of
the Summer Time Act 1972 (c. 6)
(interpretation of |
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references) the time for
general purposes shall be one hour in advance of |
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Amendment
of the Summer Time Act 1972 |
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In section 1(1) of the Summer
Time Act 1972 (advance of time during period of |
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summer time) for “one
hour” substitute “two hours”. |
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Amendment
of the Interpretation Act 1978 |
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For section 9 of the Interpretation
Act 1978 (c. 30) (references to time of day) |
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“Whenever
an expression of time occurs in an Act, the time referred to |
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shall,
unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be held to be the
time |
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established
by the Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Act 2006, for so long |
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as
that Act is in force.” |
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Amendment
of the Scotland Act 1998 |
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In section L5 (time) of
Schedule 5 (reserved matters) to the Scotland
Act 1998 |
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(c. 46), insert as the
first entry under the cross-heading Exceptions— |
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“The subject-matter
of the Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Act 2006”. |
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Short
title, commencement and extent |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Act 2006. |
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(2) |
This Act shall come into
force— |
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in England at two o’clock
in the morning of 29th October 2006, |
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(b) |
in Wales on such day (if
any) as the National Assembly for Wales may |
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by order made by statutory
instrument appoint, |
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and
shall expire at two o’clock in the morning of 25th October
2009. |
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(3) |
This Act extends to the whole
of the United Kingdom. |
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