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Malaysian Standard Time Act 1981 is Malaysia Act, cited as Act 261 1981, currently marked in force and first recorded in 1981.
Act 261
MALAYSIAN STANDARD TIME
ACT 1981
As at 1 December 2011
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ACT 1981
Date of Royal Assent ... ... ... … … 28 December 1981
Date of publication in the Gazette … ... 29 December 1981
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Opening note
This Act may be cited as the Malaysian Standard Time
Act 1981 and shall apply throughout Malaysia.
For the purpose of this Act, 1 January 1982 shall commence eight hours in advance of four o’clock in the afternoon
Greenwich mean time on 31 December 1981.
Malaysian standard time
The time for general purposes throughout Malaysia (to be known as Malaysian standard time) shall be eight hours in advance of Greenwich mean time throughout the year; and any reference to a specified point of time in any written law or any document whatsoever (whether made before or after the coming into force of this Act) shall be construed accordingly unless it is otherwise expressly provided.
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may from time to time by notification in the Gazette prescribe such other period in
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advance of Greenwich mean time to be Malaysian standard time.
Repeal
The provisions of the laws specified in the Schedule are repealed.
[Section 3]
1. Section 37 of the *Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance 1948
[M.U. Ord. 7 of 1948].
2. Definition of ―standard time‖ in subsection 3(1) of the Interpretation Ordinance of Sarawak [Cap. 1].
3. Section 37 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Enactment 1963 of
Sabah [En. 34 of 1963].
4. Section 10 of the *Interpretation Act 1967 [Act 23 of 1967].
*NOTE—The Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance 1948 [M.U. Ord. 7 of 1948] and the
Interpretation Act 1967 [Act 23 of 1967] has since been revised as Act 388.
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LIST OF AMENDMENTS
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LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED
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