Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880

Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to remove doubts as to the meaning of Expressions relative to Time occurring in Acts of Parliament, deeds, and other legal instruments.
Citation43 & 44 Vict. c. 9
Introduced bySir Charles Cameron MP (Commons)
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent2 August 1880
Commencement2 August 1880
Repealed1 January 1979
Other legislation
Repealed byInterpretation Act 1978
Relates to
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 9) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legally adopted Greenwich Mean Time throughout the island of Great Britain and Dublin Mean Time throughout Ireland.