A BILL [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE A] TO Regulate the date of Easter Day and days. or other periods and occasions depending thereon. BE E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the 5 same, as follows: A.D. 1928. 1. Easter-day shall, in the calendar year next but Date of one after the commencement of this Act and in all Easter-day. subsequent years, be the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April, and section three of the Calendar 10 (New Style) Act, 1750, the new calendar, tables and rules annexed to that Act, and section two of the Calendar Act, 1751, are hereby amended and shall be read and construed accordingly, and, in particular, the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750, shall, as respects such 15 calendar years as aforesaid, have effect as if in the "Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy Days begin " contained in that Act, for the words "is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of 20" March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, "Easter Day is the Sunday after," there shall be substituted the words "is always the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April." 66 A.D. 1928. Short title, commence. ment and extent. 2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Easter Act, 1928. (2) This Act shall commence and come into operation on such date as may be fixed by Order of His Majesty in Council, provided that before any such 5 Order in Council is made a draft thereof shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and the Order shall not be made unless both Houses by resolution approve the draft either without modification or with modifications to which both Houses agree, but upon such approval 10 being given the order may be made in the form in which it has been so approved. (3) This Act shall extend to the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands, and His Majesty in Council may by Order extend this Act to any 15 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 20 Nations has been accepted by His Majesty other than the territories mentioned in Part II. of the said Schedule. To regulate the date of Easter Day and days or other periods and occasions depending thereon. Presented by Captain Bourne, supported by Mr. Withers, Mr. Buxton, Sir Philip Richardson, Captain Fairfax and Mr. Rosslyn Mitchell. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 8th March 1928. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., East Harding Street, E.C. 4, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, [Bill 59] [Price 2d. Net.] |