§ 112. Sir B. FALLEasked the Secretary to the Admiralty if the new Regulations for promotion in the non-executive branches have been applied to officers disabled in the War; if not, if he can give the reason; and if the old Regulation of 1447 allowing officers when invalided under the age of forty to retire at half-pay rates has been cancelled?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe new Reguletions for promotion in the non-executive branches were not intended to be retrospective, and, therefore, applied only to officers on the active list on the 1st July, 1919. Officers disabled in the War and invalided before that date are not affected. The old regulation under which officers invalided under the age of forty were retired on the half-pay of their rank has been cancelled so far as officers below the rank of commander are concerned, and a revised scale substituted, which is given on page 24 of the White Paper. Officers of the rank of commander and above continue to be retired in such circumstances on the half-pay of their rank.