On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Peter Ilieve wrote:
- The Summer Time Act, 1925
This makes the 1922 Act permanent, with a change to the end date to the day after the first Saturday in October. Came into force on 7 August 1925. As the 1922 Act expired on 31 December 1923 unless Parliament did something about it, there are presumably some missing Orders for 1924 and 1925.
The 1922 Act does not seem to give a power for extension or varying dates by Order in Council. Instead, the Act was extended, along with several others, by the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 37) to 31 December 1924, and then by the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1924 (15 Geo. 5. c. 1) to 31 December 1925. [...]
An Order in Council amending the The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. This continues summer time throughout the year after it starts in 1940. There was another Order (SR&O 1940, No 172) that I assume had merely changed the dates, and was then superseded by this one. I haven't seen No 172.
Order No. 172 is indeed omitted from the annual volume as superseded.
- SR&O 1944, No 932
This changed the end date of double summer time to 17 September 1944. (I don't have the text of this, just a note of what it did, the text almost certainly had the `day after the nth Saturday' form.)
This order is omitted from the annual volume as spent (with just that note about its effect). -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk