HC Deb 08 March 1898 vol 54 cc963-4
MR. A. F. WARR (Liverpool, East Toxteth)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Rules of Court under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, will be issued, and whether they will be so framed as to provide means by which claims can be enforced against foreign ships in this country?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

I understand that notice has been given in the Gazette that draft rules have been prepared, and the hon. Member will be able, if he wishes, to examine them. I have no authority with regard to these rules, but I should think it was not possible, by rules of procedure, to create any jurisdiction over foreign ships such as the hon. Member appears to contemplate.