§ MR. G. GREENWOOD (Peterborough)I beg to ask the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Natal Indemnity Act, 1906, passed both Houses of the Colonial Legislature in July, 1906; that the Governor was authorised to give the Royal Assent to that Act, which was not specially reserved for the Royal con sideration, on 13th August, 1906, and that the Governor postponed giving that assent till 1st October, 1906; and, seeing that in the meantime the Colonial Parliament had been dissolved, and that in these circumstances doubts have arisen concerning the validity of Act, whether any steps have been taken, or are in contemplation, in order to set such doubts at rest.
§ COLONEL SEELYThe point raised by the hon. Member's Question was argued before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on 5th July of last year, and the doubt, if any, which may have previously existed was finally set at rest by the decision of that tribunal.