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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 Summer Time Act 1972)â.
  
  Had it not been rejected this would have taken effect on Clause 1 of the Bill[2] which stated:
  
  
  
  During the debate Christopher Chope MP (Christchurch, Conservative) explained:[3]
  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.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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