MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if the existing Regulations which enable persons serving in the Civil Service and other specified situations to compete at the examinations for outdoor officers of Customs will continue in force as at present until the contemplated change of age takes place?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTClause 4 of the General Regulations for open competitive examinations for the Civil Service, by which persons who have served for two full consecutive years in any civil situation to which they were admitted with the certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners may, in reckoning age for competition, deduct from their actual age any time not exceeding five years which they may have spent in such service, continues in force, and will so continue under the new Regulations.