§ SIR HENRY COTTON (Nottingham, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Bill for the Amendment of the Whipping Act, now under consideration in India, contains a provision that no whipping shall be inflicted by order of a court unless and until the person convicted has had a reasonable opportunity of carrying his case before a Court of Appeal.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Money.) As I informed the hon. Member on the 5th instant, the amendments of the law are under the consideration of the Government of India, and I am not yet in a position to state the nature of the amendments proposed.