§ VISCOUNT ADDISONMy Lords, I have to ask the House to give a First Reading to a Bill to make temporary provision for the inclusion in electoral rolls in India of persons returned from war service, to relax residence qualifications for those persons and to extend certain Indian franchise qualifications which depend on service in His Majesty's Forces or on the award of a pension. I understand that this is a matter of considerable urgency for certain troops of the Indian Forces, and I ask your Lordships, if you will, to give the Bill a First Reading.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.— (Viscount Addison.)
§ On Question, Bill read la, and to be printed.