Fourth Session, Thirty-Eighth Legislature

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Bill 8

THE OFFICIAL TIME AMENDMENT ACT

(Assented to                                         )

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

C.C.S.M. c. O30 amended

1

The Official Time Act is amended by this Act.

2

Section 2 is replaced with the following:

Description of official time

2(1)

Except as provided in this section, Central Standard Time must be used and observed throughout the province as the official time.

Daylight saving time

2(2)

Subject to subsection (3), daylight saving time — being the time one hour in advance of Central Standard Time — must be used and observed throughout the province

(a) in 2006, from 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in April until 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in October; and

(b) in 2007 and every year after that, from 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March until 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November.

Power to vary

2(3)

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations varying a period of daylight saving time established by subsection (2).

Coming into force

3

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.