§ 100. Mr. JOWETTasked the President of the Local Government Board, concerning the case of a time-expired soldier who has served twenty-two years, including service in Belgium and France from the beginning of the present War, until 31st March last when he took his discharge, and who will be forty-one years of age on the 1st November next, whether the man in question will be at liberty to take his discharge again when he reaches the age of forty-one if he is once more called to the Colours under the provisions of Clause 2 of the Military Service Bill?
§ Mr. TENNANTNo, Sir. If such a soldier rejoins the Colours, under the provisions of the Military Service Act, before he attains the age of forty-one years he will, under the terms of the Act, be enlisted for the period of the War.