§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD WIMBORNEMy Lords, this Bill has for its object the placing of constables of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police who are Reservists or join the Navy or Army in the same position as English police constables in like circumstances were placed by the Bill which your Lordships recently passed for England. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2ª.—(Lord Wimborne.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2ª.
§ Committee negatived: Then (Standing Order No. XXXIX having been suspended) Bill read 3ª, and passed.