§ LORD ROSMEADMy Lords, I beg to ask His Majesty's Government if it is a fact that an arrangement is being made by the India Office by which an officer on leave from a regiment in the Indian Army is about to be seconded in order to take up an appointment as "Controller" of the Union Jack Club.
§ superseded, but which has not been formally repealed. The whole of these Amendments are Amendments of details in the Companies Acts which ought to be made preparatory to consolidation.
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§ EARL BEAUCHAMPMy Lords, the noble Lord is perfectly accurate in saying that a request has been received from the council of the Union Jack Club for the loan of an officer on leave from a regiment in the Indian Army; but the Secretary of State for India, having given the matter full consideration, does not regard the object in view as one for which a charge should be put on the revenue of India or exceptional arrangements sanctioned.