South Australia
The Standard Time Act 1898
An Act relating to standard time.

Contents
1	Short title
3	Standard time
4	Time mentioned in Acts, rules etc to mean standard time
Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as The Standard Time Act 1898.
3—Standard time
The mean time of the meridian of longitude one hundred and forty-two and a half degrees east of Greenwich shall be deemed, and is hereby declared to be, standard time throughout South Australia.
4—Time mentioned in Acts, rules etc to mean standard time
Whenever any expression of time occurs in any Act, order in Council, rule, regulation, or by-law, or deed, or in any instrument whatsoever, 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 the night, has an effect in law, such time shall, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be held to be standard time throughout South Australia, as declared by this Act.

Legislative history
Notes
	•	For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.
Repeal of Act
The The Standard Time Act 1898 was repealed by Sch 1 cl 1 of the Standard Time Act 2009 on 26.2.2009.
Legislation repealed by principal Act
The The Standard Time Act 1898 repealed the following:
Standard Time Act 1894
Principal Act
Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement	
1898	699	The Standard Time Act 1898	23.12.1898	1.5.1899 (Gazette 9.2.1899 p245)	
Provisions amended since 3 February 1976
Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.
Provision	How varied	Commencement	
s 2	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002		
s 5	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002