§ 13. Major Sir BERTRAM FALLEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether His Majesty's ships which commissioned for foreign service prior to the Admiralty Order extending commissions to three years will remain in commission for the revised period or pay off after two years?
§ Mr. AMERYIt is not intended to apply the revised period in its entirety to ships commissioned before the date of the Order. It is necessary, however, in order to spread the recommissionings over the longer period, to lengthen existing commissions in proportion to the period unexpired. Thus the commission of a ship already well into the second year of her commission will be lengthened by much less than the one only recently commissioned.