§ 14. Colonel YATEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether, considering that officers are liable to be detained in the Service for the duration of the War although they have completed their time for full pension, there is any Warrant that authorises the withholding from such officers thus detained the pension or the deferred pay that is due to them on completion of the prescribed period of service; and, if so, will he quote the words of that Warrant?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe authority is Article 498 of the Pay Warrant, the words of which are as follow:
Officers who shall, during a time of national emergency, be retained by our Army Council beyond the time when they are liable to retire from our Army, and officers taken into employment before the occurrence of a national emergency and retained in such employment during such emergency, shall not be deemed to be employed under the conditions of Article 496, and shall continue to serve under the conditions of pay, etc., previously applicable to them.
§ Colonel YATEIs there anything in that that deprives the officer of the deferred pay to which he is entitled?
§ Mr. FORSTERAn officer is not entitled to retired pay until he has retired.