§ 48. Sir C. YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering that there is no retiring age for brevets in the Indian Army, and that a brevet-lieutenant-colonel of the Indian Army retires on a major's pension and a brevet-colonel on a lieutenant-colonel's pension, he will authorise the Government of India to fix the retiring age of a brevet-colonel at 55, the same as a lieutenant-colonel, or, failing this grant to brevet-colonels, the full pensions of a substantive colonel?
§ Mr. RICHARDSThe ages for the compulsory retirement of officers of the Indian Army are those laid down in the Royal Warrant for the pay, etc., of the Army. The pension of an officer of the Indian Army is calculated as in the British service with reference to his substantive rank, and my Noble Friend is not prepared to permit brevet rank to count as though it were substantive rank.