§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state when the Fruit Preserving Order will come into operative force in the various places where the trade is carried on.
(Answer.) Under The Rules Publication Act, 1893, the Order in question has to be published in draft for forty days. That period expires on the 14th instant, and if no questions arise rendering necessary any considerable modification of the Order I shallmake it at once, and direct that it shall come into operation on or about the 23rd instant. The Order has to be laid before Parliament for forty days, but it will be in force from the date fixed unless and until annulled by Parliament.—(Home Office.)