§ 3. Mr. KINGasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that at a public meeting at Liverpool on 26th June he gave a card to a man to exempt him from further medical examination under the Military Service (Review of Exceptions) Act, he will say whether his own personal card or note has any legal effect in excluding a man from his liability under an Act of Parliament; and, if so, under what authority, or to what extent, does he propose to exercise this power?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI was asked by a sergeant who said he had fought at Ypres and had been discharged in August, 1916, on account of illness and was called up for re-examination on the following morning how he stood under the concession which I had publicly announced in this House. I assured myself of the fact that he was discharged through illness after service abroad. He asked me if 1 would certify that the exception—not the exemption as my hon. Friend calls it—applied to him. I not only certified this 885 but told him, having previously explained to the meeting that in such cases all that was necessary was to send back the Statutory form endorsed, that it was not necessary for him to leave his work in the morning to appear for re-examination. I did this as the pledge was given by myself, and I was and am, so far as I can, determined to see that that pledge is kept.