§ MR. J. D. WHITE (Dumbartonshire)To ask the Secretary for Scotland what are the regulations governing the flying of the Scottish Standard.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) My hon. friend will find the information he desires in a Circular now issued to the police authorities of which the following is a copy—
§ "Adverting to Police Circular No. 512, issued from this office on the 16th March, 1907, I am directed by the Secretary for Scotland to inform you that numerous inquiries continue to be made as to the 439 practice to be observed in regard to the display of the flag variously described as the 'Scottish Standard' or the 'Scottish Lion Flag,' meaning the flag displaying the red lion rampant upon a yellow ground within a double tressure. Mr. Sinclair accordingly thinks it desirable to take this means of intimating that, although the flag in question represents one quartering of the Royal Standard, the consideration referred to in the above-mentioned circular does not apply with equal force, and that there is therefore no necessity to discourage the display of this flag.
§ "I am to add that the full Royal Standard is the personal flag of the Sovereign, in Scotland as in England, and that the flying of this flag by unauthorised persons constitutes an informality of which the police, as already indicated, should take cognisance by drawing the attention of the responsible persons to the irregularity, but without challenging it in any more formal manner.
§ "I am to explain that the foregoing observations apply solely to the case of hoisting the Royal Standard on a flagstaff, etc., and there is no objection to the use of this or any other flag when 'slung' or otherwise employed for decorative purposes."