§ 46. Captain WEDGWOOD BENNasked the Prime Minister whether the new Ordinance No. 167, setting up a pass barrier in the Rhineland, has received the assent of the British Commissioner; whether it is operative in the British occupied territory; and whether, in general, ordinances of the Commission from which the British representative dissents are effective in the territory occupied by British troops?
§ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Baldwin)The answer to the first two parts of the question is in the negative. As regard the last part, ordinances arising out of Franco-Belgian independent action, on which His Majesty's High Commissioner, acting in accordance with his standing instructions, has abstained from voting, have not been carried into effect in he British zone.