§ SIR ALEXANDER GORDONasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he is yet able to lay upon the Table of the House a copy of the proposed Army Discipline Annual Act, by which the proposed permanent Army Discipline Act will be annually brought into operation; and, if not, whether he can do so 1246 before the House goes into Committee on the Bill which is to form the permanent Act?
§ COLONEL STANLEYThere will be no difficulty in my undertaking to lay on the Table as a Parliamentary Paper the form of annual Bill which it is proposed to bring in from year to year. For this year a Bill in a somewhat different form must be brought in, providing when the Army Discipline and Regulation Bill is to come into force and when it is to determine. That Bill will be accompanied with a repeal schedule and a variety of clauses; and it is not possible that it can be laid on the Table before the Army Discipline and Regulation Bill goes into Committee, for its clauses must depend upon the form in which the House passes the Discipline Bill.