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Time Act 1978

COOK ISLANDS

TIME ACT 1978

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Cook Islands Standard Time
3. Time for General Purposes
4. Cook Islands Daylight Time
5. Effect of commencement and cessation of Cook Islands daylight time on pay and allowances.
6. Reference to point of time in enactments, Orders in Executive Council, etc.

1978, No. 5

An Act to consolidate the law relating to fixing the time for general purposes in the Cook Islands.

(10 November 1978

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows -

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Time Act 1978.

2. Cook Islands Standard Time

For the purposes of this Act and of any other Act the expression "Cook Islands Standard Time" means the time corresponding to the longitude of 180°E of Greenwich, being twenty two and one half hours in arrears of Greenwich mean time.

3. Time for General Purposes

Except as provided by section 4 of this Act -

(a) The time for general purposes in the Cook Islands shall be Cook Islands Standard Time.

4. Cook Islands Daylight Time

(1) The High Commissioner may from time to time by order in Executive Council, declare that for such period or periods as may be prescribed in the Order in Executive Council -

(a) The time for general purposes in the Cook Islands shall be 1 hour in advance of Cook Islands Standard Time.

(2) Any period prescribed in any Order in Executive Council made under subsection (1) of this section shall commence at 2.00 a.m. Cook Islands Standard Time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Executive Council, and shall cease at 2.00 a.m Cook Islands Standard Time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Executive Council or in any subsequent Order in Executive Council.

(3) The period or periods prescribed in any Order in Executive Council under subsection (1) of this section, may be for either the whole or part of any year.

(4) During any period that the time for general purposes in the Cook Islands is determined under the foregoing provisions of this section, that time shall be known as Cook Islands Daylight Time.

5. Effect of Commencement and Cessation of Cook Islands Daylight Time on Pay and Allowances

(1) Where, by reason of the commencement of Cook Islands Daylight Time on the day specified in any Order in Executive Council made under subsection (1) of section 4 of this Act, the hours worked by any person on that day are less than the hours he would otherwise have worked, the pay and allowances of that person for those hours shall be an amount equal to the amount of the pay and allowances for the hours he would otherwise have worked.

(2) Where, by reason of the cessation of Cook Islands Daylight Time on the day specified in any Order in Executive Council made under subsection (1) of section 4 of this Act, the hours worked by any person on that day are in excess of the hours he would otherwise have worked, the pay and allowances of that person for the excess shall be calculated and paid at the appropriate rates for work performed in excess of normal hours.

6. Reference to Point of Time in Enactments, Orders in Executive Council, Etc.

Wherever any reference to a point of time occurs in any enactment, Order in Executive Council, order, regulation, rule, by-law, deed, notice or other document whatsoever, the time referred to shall, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be deemed to be the time for general purposes in the Cook Islands as determined under section 3 or, as the case may be, section 4 of this Act.

This Act is administered by the Premier.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1978