§ MR. O'REILLYasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If the Treasury claims a right to make direct appointments in 102 the Civil Service to Officers included in Schedule A of the Order in Council of 4th June 1870, without the persons so appointed having complied with the conditions as to examination prescribed in Article 5 of the Order in Council, or obtained from the Civil Service Commissioners the certificate of qualification required by Article 7 in all cases in which the conditions of Article 5 may be dispensed with.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, the conditions under which appointments were filled depended upon whether the appointment to the office was vested in some public Department by an Act of Parliament or not. No Order in Council could alter or repeal, or in any way vary an Act of Parliament, and any Department having the right to appoint to an office under an Act of Parliament might make such appointment without conforming to the regulations of the Order in Council referred to.