You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. The Constitution Unit Blog. Parliamentary debates Since parliamentarians have regularly urged the government to implement the Easter Act. Easter and Christianity in 21 st century Britain Given the longstanding competing calendar traditions it appears unlikely that the churches will change their centuries-old Easter policies soon.
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Email Address never made public. Follow Following. The Constitution Unit Blog Join 2, other followers. Sign me up. This is because the Easter Act contains a commencement clause. Such a clause outlines the circumstances in which an Act, or part of an Act, will come into effect. The commencement clause in the Easter Act reads as follows:. In particular, it is the final part of this clause which has stopped the Easter Act from coming into force. It takes the form of the Easter Act , a prescient piece of legislation which is already on the statute book, ready and waiting for a government brave enough to issue the implementation order.
The act sets down that Easter Sunday must fall on a fixed day — the Sunday following the second Saturday in April. The effect would be that Easter Sunday, instead of falling on any date between 22 March and 25 April as now, would fall in the narrower window of 9 to 15 April.
This year, if the act had been in force, Easter would have been last Sunday — resulting in a decent working interval between it and the royal wedding. All this could happen if the government chose to do it.
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