§ MR. TOULMIN (Bury, Lancashire)To ask the Postmaster General, as representing the Secretary of Stale for the Colonies, in view of the fact that the Criminal Procedure Code, 1903, came into force in South Africa on 1st February, if he has now received any official information showing whether a person who is to be arrested for committing a grave crime, and who resists the arrest or attempts to escape, may be killed, if there is no other way of arresting him, and whether any police officer above the rank of sergeant may search a house without a warrant; and whether he can give the other provisions of this Ordinance.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, for the Secretary of State for the Colonies.) I have nothing at present to add to the answer given to the hon. Member on the 20th February,† as Lord Milner's despatch forwarding the Ordinance in question has. not yet been received.