§ Mr. Elwyn JonesI beg to move, in page 35, line 16, after "or" to insert "reasonably," I am happy to inform the Committee that a similar Amendment to a similar Clause in the Army Bill was accepted by the Government. I have reason to hope that the Air Force will show an equal determination to proclaim that when an airman goes into the Air Force he does not thereby become shorn of rights and liberties, and that he is as immune from arbitrary and unreasonable arrest as before he enters the Air Force.
731 Perhaps he has not the same rights as a gentleman so successfully asserted in the Queen's Bench Division this week in taking proceedings in the event of an arrest on unreasonable grounds, but at any rate the insertion of the traditional, the historic, word "reasonably" will proclaim to the man in the Air Force that the use and law of England does clothe him with as much protection as is possible, given the circumscribed conditions of life in a modern Service.
Mr. WardI am very happy to say that we regard the insertion of the word "reasonably" as reasonable, and we are delighted to accept the Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clauses 75 to 94 ordered to stand part of the Bill.