THE SAMOA STANDARD TIME ORDINANCE, 1933
Western Samoa No. 1, 1933
AN ORDINANCE
made by the Administrator of the Territory of Western Samoa with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of that Territory, and in pursuance of The Samoa Act, 1921.
1. The expression “Samoa Standard Time” means the mean solar time of the longitude of 165 degrees West of Greenwich which time is eleven hours behind Greenwich mean solar time.
2. Whenever any reference to a point of time occurs in any legislative enactment in force in Samoa or in any regulation, proclamation, order, rule, warrant, or notice made or given under any such enactment or in any document whatsoever the time referred to shall be deemed to be Samoa Standard Time unless it is otherwise expressly provided therein.
3. This Ordinance shall apply to all enactments and documents whether enacted made or executed before or after the coming into operation of this Ordinance and shall extend to points of time fixed as of by reference to sunrise and subset.
4. THis Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of October, 1933.
Assented to this twenty-ninth day of March, 1933.
[L.S.] H. HART, Administrator.