Summer Time (Sark) Ordinance, 2002

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The Summer Time (Sark) Ordinance 2002

THE CHIEF PLEAS OF SARK, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1 and 4 of the European Communities (Implementation) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1994[a], hereby order:

Harmonisation of Summer time arrangements.

1. (1) The provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 January 2001, as may be amended from time to time, ("the Directive")[b] concerning summer time arrangements shall be applicable in Guernsey in all respects as if Sark were a Member State.

(2) Expressions used in Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Directive shall have the same meanings in this Ordinance as in the Directive.

(3) The provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Directive are reproduced in the first Schedule to this Ordinance.

(4) The timetable published from time to time under Article 4 of the Directive shall have full force and effect in Sark.

(5) The provisions of this Ordinance shall take effect notwithstanding the provisions of section 1(2) of the Summer Time Act 1972 ("the Act") and any Order in Council made under section 2(1)(a) of the Act.

Dates of summer time period.

2. For the years 2002 to 2006 inclusive, the summer time periods will begin and end respectively on the dates set out in the second Schedule to this Ordinance at 1.00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time.

Citation.

3. This Ordinance may be cited as the Summer Time (Sark) Ordinance, 2001.

Commencement.

4. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 16 January 2002.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Section 1 (3)

Article 1

For the purposes of this Directive `summer-time period' shall mean the period of the year during which clocks are put forward by 60 minutes compared with the rest of the year.

Article 2

From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall begin, in every Member State, at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in March.

Article 3

From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall end, in every Member State, at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in October.

Article 4

The Commission shall publish a communication in the Official Journal of the European Communities, for the first time on the occasion of the publication of this Directive, and every five years thereafter, containing the timetable showing the dates on which the summer-time period will begin and end for the following five years.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Section 2

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YEAR	SUMMER TIME BEGINS	SUMMER TIME ENDS
2002	Sunday 31 March	Sunday 27 October
2003	Sunday 30 March	Sunday 26 October
2004	Sunday 28 March	Sunday 31 October
2005	Sunday 27 March	Sunday 30 October
2006	Sunday 26 March	Sunday 29 October

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[a]	Order in Council no. III of 1994.
[b]	OJ No. L031, 2 February 2001 p21 -22.