Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880

Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880[a]
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to remove doubts as to the meaning of Expressions relative to Time occurring in Acts of Parliament, deeds, and other legal instruments.
Citation43 & 44 Vict. c. 9
Introduced bySir Charles Cameron MP (Commons)
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent2 August 1880
Commencement2 August 1880
Repealed1 January 1979
Other legislation
Repealed byInterpretation Act 1978
Relates to
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 9) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legally adopted Greenwich Mean Time throughout the island of Great Britain and Dublin Mean Time throughout Ireland.


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