§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, seeing the inconvenience to which police pensioners are sometimes subjected in connection with the signing of their life certificates, and seeing that a section sergeant is authorised to sign a pensioner's paper from the Army or Navy, he will consider the advisability of adding police section sergeants to the list of persons authorised to sign police pensioners' life certificates.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASThe rules now in force as to the signing of police pensioners' life certificates were framed after consideration of those relating to military and naval pensions, and I see no occasion to alter them. The list of attesting authorities gives a wide range of selection—including police officers of or above the rank of station sergeant—and I understand that it is an extremely rare thing for any inconvenience to be caused.