§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that the amount obtained by the deductions from the pensions of naval and military officers in civil employment amounts to only about £3,600, and seeing that the Act which gives authority for the said deduction is permissive, he will consider the advisability of remitting these deductions in future.
§ * MR. HANBURYIt is not the case that Section 6 Sub-section (1) of the Superannuation Act would permit the remission of these deductions in future. The section provides that "the Treasury may frame rules" within one month after the passing of the Act, but when once the rules have been framed they become statutory; and, as no power is given to vary or alter them, a change could not be made except by fresh legislation.