51. The mean time of the meridian of longitude one hundred and seventy two and one half degrees east of Greenwich in English shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be standard time in Nauru and, whenever an expression of time occurs in any written law and whenever the doing or not doing anything at a certain time of day or night, or during a certain part of the day or night, has effect in such written law, such time shall , unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be held to be standard time in Nauru as declared by this section.

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

NAURU STANDARD TIME ACT 1978

(NO. 13 OF 1978)

AN ACT

To provide for time in Nauru to be eleven or twelve hours in advance of Greenwish Mean Time and connected matters.

(Certified: 21st December, 1978)

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the attached document is a fair print of an Act entitled the Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 that has been made by Parliament and is now presented to the Speaker for his Certificate under Article 47 of the Constitution.

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Clerk of Parliament 21st December, 1978

Pursuant to Article 47 of the Constitution, I DAVID PETER GADARAOA, Speaker of Parliament HEREBY CERTIFY that the Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 a copy of which is attached has been passed by Parliament.

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Speaker 21st December, 1978

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

NAURU STANDARD TIME ACT 1978

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Time change
4. Publicity
5. Modification of Interpretation Act 1971

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

NAURU STANDARD TIME ACT 1978

(No. 13 of 1978)

AN ACT

To provide for time in Nauru to be eleven or twelve hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time and connected matters.

(Certified: 21st December, 1978)

Enacted by the Parliament Nauru as follows:–

SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the Nauru Standard Time Act 1978.

INTERPRETATION

2. In this Act –

"Greenwich Mean Time" means the mean time of the meridian of Greenwich in England;

"The meridian of Greenwich" means the meridian of Greenwich by relation to the markers or posts marking or indicating zero degrees of longitude placed or erected at Greenwich in England by the Royal Observatory, England;

"Nauru Alternate Time" means twelve hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time;

"Nauru Standard Time" means eleven hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time;

"Present Time" means eleven and one half hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time.

TIME CHANGE

3. (1) Cabinet may by notice in the Gazette prescribe that as from a date and time not earlier than twenty-one days from the date of publication of the issue of the Gazette in which such notice appears time in Nauru shall be Nauru Alternate Time or Nauru Standard Time.

(2) A notice under subsection (1) shall be so drawn as to take effect at two of the clock ante meridiem on a Saturday as measured by the time, be it Present Time, Nauru Alternate Time or Nauru Standard Time, in force on the date on which the issue of the Gazette in which the notice appears, is published.

PUBLICITY

4. (1) The Cabinet shall require Radio Nauru to notify on each of the seven days preceding the Saturday on which a notice under section 3(1) takes effect and in such manner as the Cabinet may require, the fact that time in Nauru will change on the next following Saturday at two of the clock ante meridiem.

(2) Radio Nauru shall comply with a request by Cabinet under subsection (1) and shall broadcast notification not less than twice a day in the English and Nauruan languages and in such other language as the Cabinet may require.

MODIFICATION OF INTERPRETATION ACT 1971

5. (1) Section 51 of the Interpretation Act 1971 shall not have effect so long as Nauru Alternate Time or Nauru Standard Time is in force pursuant to this Act.

(2) For so long as Nauru Alternate Time or Nauru Standard Time is in force subsection (3) shall have effect in place of section 51 of the Interpretation Act.

(3) For all purposes whatever time and periods of time are measured or fixed by relation to the time in force under the provisions of this Act.

G.N. No. 28/1979

NAURU STANDARD TIME ACT 1978

TIME CHANGE

IN EXERCISE of its powers under Section 3(1) of the Nauru Standard Time Act 1978, the Cabinet HEREBY prescribes that with effect from 2 o'clock ante meridiem on Saturday the 10th day of February 1979 Nauru Alternate Time shall be in force.

DATED this 17 day of January, 1979.

Q.V.L. WESTON,

ACTING SECRETARY TO THE CABINET

NOTES

1. These notes do not form a formal part of the above Gazette Notice and are inserted for explanation only.

2. The effect of the above Gazette Notice is that the time in force in Nauru will be altered at 2 a.m. on Saturday, 10th February 1979 to 12 hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time instead of the present 11$\frac{\text{<span>1</span>}}{\text{<span>2</span>}}$ hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time.

3. At 2 a.m. on Saturday 10th February 1979 all clocks in Nauru will need to be put forward by half an hour. For private persons there is no need to wait up until 2 o'clock to do this as the simple way for them to make the change is to put their watches and clocks forward by half an hour just before they go to bed.

Part 17 – Nauru Standard Time Act 1978

The repealed Act contained a provision setting standard time in Nauru. However, the Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 later provided for an alternative method of setting standard time in Nauru, which has been used with the effect that the provision in the repealed Act provided for a different standard time to that actually in effect. The Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 provided for the modification of the repealed Act to accommodate this. The provision for standard time has not been included in the new Act, so time is now dealt with only in the Nauru Standard Time Act 1978. As a result, the provision modifying the repealed Act has been removed entirely.