HC Deb 27 July 1896 vol 43 c786

(1.) The power under the Royal Naval Reserve Volunteer Act, 1849, to raise and pay volunteers may, subject to regulations of the Admiralty, be exercised outside the British Islands: Provided that a volunteer shall not be raised or paid outside the British Islands unless he is a British subject serving on a vessel registered in the British Islands. (2.) In section one of the said Act the words "in the United Kingdom and the Islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, or any of them," and in section nine of the same Act the words "in the United Kingdom or in the Islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and nowhere else, and "are hereby repealed.

MR. LOUGH

asked that some explanation of the Bill should be given.

THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. W. E. MACARTNEY, Antrim, S.)

said that this was a Bill simply to enable certain naval reserves to obtain their retainers.

Bill reported without Amendment.

Bill read the Third time and passed.