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  Daylight Saving Bill - Clause 1 - Report to be prepared on advancing time
  
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  MPs were considering the Daylight Saving Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 59, page 1, line 3, leave out
  
  :âthe time for general purposesâ
  
  :and insert
  
  :âthe period of summer time (within the meaning of the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/6/contents Summer Time Act 1972])â.
  
  Had it not been rejected this would have taken effect on Clause 1 of the Bill[2] which at the time of the vote stated:
  
  :'' Report to be prepared on advancing time''
  
  :(1) The Secretary of State must prepare a report on the potential costs and benefits of advancing the time for general purposes in the United Kingdom by one hour.
  :(2) In preparing the report the Secretary of State must have regard to the different interests of persons in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  (3) In this Act âthe repot means the report required to be prepared under this section.
  
  If the amendment had been accepted subclause (1) would have become:
  :(1) The Secretary of State must prepare a report on the potential costs and benefits of advancing the period of summer time (within the meaning of the Summer Time Act 1972) in the United Kingdom by one hour.
  
  The Summer Time Act 1972 states summer time is one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time. The period of summer time is defined in that act as the period beginning at one oâclock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in March and ending at one oâclock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in October.[3]
  
  During the debate Christopher Chope MP (Christchurch, Conservative) explained:[4]
  My amendment 59, which would confine the experiment to extending British summer time by 1 hour rather than interfering with Greenwich meantime in the winter, would address the area that has the greatest potential benefit and which is most likely to increase the number of jobs.
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/daylightsaving.html Parliament's webpage on the Daylight Saving Bill]
  * [2] [ Clause 1 of the Daylight Saving Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/6/section/1 Clause 1 of the Summer Time Act 1972]
  * [4] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2012-01-20a.969.2#g973.5 Christopher Chope MP (Christchurch, Conservative), House of Commons, 20 January 2012]
  
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