Uimhir 23 de 1968

AN tACHT UM AM CAIGHDEÁNACH, 1968

[An tiontú oifigiúil]

Am caighdeánach.

1925, Uimh. 8.

1.—(1) Beidh an t-am chun críocha ginearálta sa Stát (ar a dtabharfar am caighdeánach) uair a chloig chun tosaigh ar mheán-am Greenwich ar feadh na bliana agus, mura bhforáiltear a mhalairt go sainráite, forléireofar dá réir sin aon tagairt do phointe sonraithe ama in aon achtachán nó in aon doiciméad dlíthiúil (cibé acu roimh dháta, nó tar éis dáta, an Achta seo a rith a ritheadh nó a rinneadh sin).

(2) Aon achtachán a ndeirtear ann go mbeidh sé i ngníomh nó go mbeidh feidhm aige i gcaitheamh tréimhse ama shamhraidh forléireofar é mar achtachán a bheidh i ngníomh nó a mbeidh feidhm aige i gcaitheamh na tréimhse atá forordaithe mar thréimhse an ama shamhraidh leis an Acht um Am Samhraidh, 1925, agus leis an Ordú um Am Samhraidh, 1926, is é sin le rá, an tréimhse dar tosach an trí a chlog maidin an lae díreach tar éis an tríú Satharn i mí Aibreáin nó, más Domhnach Cásca an lá sin, dar tosach an uair sin den lá díreach tar éis an dara Satharn i mí Aibreáin agus, i gceachtar cás, dar críoch an uair sin maidin an lae díreach tar éis an chéad Shathairn i mí Deireadh Fómhair.

(3) Ní dhéanfaidh aon ní san alt seo difear d'úsáid meán-ama Greenwich chun críocha réalteolaíochta, meitéareolaíochta, loingseoireachta nó críocha eile a bhfuil glactha leis an am sin chucu de thairbhe úsáid idirnáisiúnta, ná d'fhorléiriú aon doiciméid a thagraíonn do phointe ama i ndáil le haon chríoch acu sin.

Gearrtheideal, tosach feidhme agus aisghairm.

2.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht um Am Caighdeánach, 1968, a ghairm den Acht seo.

(2) Tiocfaidh an tAcht seo i ngníomh an 27ú lá de Dheireadh Fómhair, 1968.

(3) Déantar leis seo na hachtacháin a luaitear sa dara colún den Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht seo a aisghairm a mhéid a shonraítear sa tríú colún den Sceideal sin.

AN SCEIDEAL

Achtacháin a Aisghairtear

Alt 2 (3).

Number 23 of 1968

STANDARD TIME ACT, 1968

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SCHEDULE

Enactments Repealed

Number 23 of 1968

STANDARD TIME ACT, 1968

Standard time.

1.—(1) The time for general purposes in the State (to be known as standard time) shall be one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time throughout the year, and any reference in any enactment or any legal document (whether passed or made before or after the passing of this Act) to a specified point of time shall be construed accordingly unless it is otherwise expressly provided.

(2) Any enactment expressed to operate or apply during a period of summer time shall be construed as operating or applying during the period prescribed as the period of summer time by the Summer Time Act, 1925, and the Summer Time Order, 1926, that is to say, the period beginning at three o'clock in the morning of the day next following the third Saturday in the month of April or, if that day is Easter Day, beginning at that hour of the day next following the second Saturday in the month of April and, in either case, ending at that hour in the morning of the day next following the first Saturday in the month of October.

(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the use of Greenwich mean time for purposes of astronomy, meteorology, navigation or other purposes for which that time is adopted by international usage, or the construction of any document referring to a point of time in connection with any of those purposes.

Short title, commencement and repeals.

2.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Standard Time Act, 1968.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on the 27th day of October, 1968.

(3) The enactments mentioned in the second column of the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Enactments Repealed

Section 2 (3).