Easter Act 1929 (SA)

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

EASTER ACT, 1929 EASTER ACT, 1929

An Act to regulate the date of Easter Day and days or other periods and occasions depending

thereon.

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Easter Act, 1929.

Date of Easter Day

2. (1) Easter Day shall in the calendar year next but one after that in which the day appointed for commencement of this Act falls, and in all subsequent years, be the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.

(2) Section three of the Imperial Act, entitled the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750, the new calendar, tables, and rules annexed to that Act, and section two of the Imperial Act, entitled the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1751, shall, in their application within this State, be read and construed subject to subsection (1) of this section, and in particular the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750, shall, in relation to the calendar years in which Easter Day is affected by that subsection, be read and construed as if in the "Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy Days begin" contained in that Act, the words "is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after," were omitted, and the words "is always the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April" were inserted in lieu thereof.

Commencement

3. This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.