Easter Act 1928

The Easter Act 1928 (c. 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed and enacted in 1928 concerning the date for Easter that has never come into force. The effect would be to establish Easter Sunday as the Sunday following the second Saturday in April, resulting in Easter Sunday being between 9 April and 15 April.

Easter Act 1928
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to regulate the date of Easter Day and days or other periods and occasions depending thereon.
Citationc. 35
Introduced bySir John Simon
Territorial extentUnited Kingdom
The Isle of Man
The Channel Islands
"His Majesty in Council may by Order extend this Act to any other part of His Majesty’s dominions, except such parts as are mentioned in Part I of the Schedule to this Act, and to any territory under His Majesty’s protection in which His Majesty has jurisdiction, and to any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty, other than the territories mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule"
Dates
Royal assent3 August 1928
CommencementNot yet in force
(Never been in force)[1]
Other legislation
Amended byNewfoundland (Consequential Provisions) Act 1950
South Africa Act 1962
Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971
Zimbabwe Act 1979
Relates toCalendar (New Style) Act 1750
Status: Not yet in force
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The purpose of the Act is to empower the Home Secretary and the Home Office, to set in the United Kingdom (and also on the Isle of Man and also on the Channel Islands; and potentially also other parts of the British Empire (excluding certain other specifically excepted territories to which this Act was not intended to apply), by the Colonial Secretary and the Colonial Office, by Order-in-Council), to set a separate date for Easter for secular British (and British Islands) state purposes, and to determine when such a date would fall, rather than following the established (British) Christian date for Easter as a Christian (at least in Western Christendom) moveable feast.

The Act requires the agreement (in the form of the resolutions) of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, before the Prime Minister of the day may direct the Home Secretary to request the King or the Queen of the day to approve and issue a Commencement Order in Council, on condition that “before making such draft order, regard shall be had to any opinion officially expressed by any Church or other Christian body”.

Although the subject has been raised occasionally in Parliament in the decades since, the Act has never been brought into force.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Easter Act 1928, s.2, Modification (added note)". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives (TNA), UK. Retrieved 31 July 2019. Power of appointment conferred by s. 2(2) not exercised


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