{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summer-time-act-1972/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summer-time-act-1972/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/6",
  "legislation_title": "Summer Time Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summer-time-act-1972",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of references.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, wherever any reference to a point of time occurs in any enactment, Order in Council, order, regulation, rule, byelaw, deed, notice or other document whatsoever, the time referred to shall, during the period of summer time, be taken to be the time as fixed for general purposes by . . . this Act.\n(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the use of Greenwich mean time for purposes of astronomy, meteorology, or navigation, or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to a point of time in connection with any of those purposes.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(1) repealed (11.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/262, art. 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/6/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:19.442149+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}