HC Deb 15 June 1893 vol 13 cc1057-8
SIR SEYMOUR KING

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, with reference to the case of Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Franklin, whether it is the case that under the Rules of 1868, under which that officer entered the Service, there is no express reservation of the right of the Secretary of State to alter the Furlough Regula- tions as there is in the Rules of 1886; and, if so, on what grounds Dr. Franklin has been excluded from the benefit of the Rules of 1868?

* MR. GEORGE RUSSELL

In the Furlough Rules of 1868 there is no expressed reservation of the right of the Secretary of State to alter these Rules as there is in the Leave Rules of 1886. But the Secretary of State has always had, and has frequently exercised, the power of altering the Rules of 1868, under which Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Franklin entered the Service; and it was only because there seemed to be some misapprehension on this point that the reservation was expressly inserted in the Rules of 1886.