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66. No Ordinance shall in any manner whatsoever affect the right of or be binding on the Crown unless it is therein expressly provided or unless it appears by necessary implication that the Crown is bound thereby. PART X.

67. (1) Standard time means the mean time of the 120th meridian East of Greenwich, that is to say eight hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time.

(2) Whenever any expression of time occurs in any Ordinance, the time referred to shall be held to be—
 * (a) summer time, during the period thereof;
 * (b) at all other times, standard time.

68. (1) Summer time in the Colony shall be one hour in advance of standard time as defined in section 67.

(2) The period of summer time shall be the period between 3.30 (standard time) in the morning of the first Sunday after the 15th April and 3.30 (summer time) in the morning of the first Sunday after the 15th October in each year.

(3) Nothing in this section or section 67 shall affect the use of Greenwich Mean Time for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology, navigation or aviation, or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to a point of time in connexion with any of these purposes.

69. The expression “a.m.” indicates the period between midnight and the following noon, and the expression “p.m.” indicates the time between noon and the following midnight. Where two such expressions occur conjunctively in relation to any specified hour or in conjunction with the word “sunset” or “sunrise”, they shall be construed as relating to a consecutive period of time.

70. Where no time is prescribed or allowed within which any thing shall be done, such thing shall be done without unreasonable delay, and as often as due occasion arises.

71. In computing time for the purposes of any Ordinance—
 * (a) a period of days from the happening of any event or the doing of any act or thing shall be deemed to be exclusive of the day on which the event happens or the act or thing is done;