Whereas it is expedient to establish a Standard of Time in Western Australia, and to declare the mean time of the one hundred and twentieth meridian of longitude East of Greenwich, in England, to be such Standard Time throughout Western Australia: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say): ¾