§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (The Marquess of LANSDOWNE)My Lords, the Military Manœuvres Act of last year provides that military manœuvres may not take place unless they have first been authorised by an Order in Council of Her Majesty. The draft Order in Council has to be sent to the County Councils and to the other local bodies in the districts concerned six months before the manœuvres take place; and it is also provided that the Order in Council must lie for thirty days on the Table of both Houses of Parliament, and that both Houses of Parliament must pass an Address in favour of the Order in Council before it can be submitted to Her Majesty. My Lords, the draft Order has been for thirty days on the Table of your Lordships House. It specifies the limits within which it is intended to hold the manœuvres, and it only remains for me to move—
That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying Her Majesty to make the Order in Council under the Military Manœuvres Act, 1897, a draft of which was presented to this House on the 18th of February last.I beg to move that this Motion be agreed to.
§ Agreed to accordingly.
§ House adjourned at 4.40.